Luke 15:7-17

7 I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

8 "Another example: what woman, if she has ten drachmas and loses one of these valuable coins, won't light a lamp, sweep the house and search all over until she finds it?

9 And when she does find it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, `Come, celebrate with me, because I have found the drachma I lost.'

10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy among God's angels when one sinner repents."

11 Again Yeshua said, "A man had two sons.

12 The younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me the share of the estate that will be mine.' So the father divided the property between them.

13 As soon as he could convert his share into cash, the younger son left home and went off to a distant country, where he squandered his money in reckless living.

14 But after he had spent it all, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch.

15 "So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

16 He longed to fill his stomach with the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him any.

17 "At last he came to his senses and said, `Any number of my father's hired workers have food to spare; and here I am, starving to death!