rsv - 15

rsv@Luke:15:1 @ Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.

rsv@Luke:15:2 @ And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

rsv@Luke:15:3 @ So he told them this parable:

rsv@Luke:15:4 @ "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it?

rsv@Luke:15:5 @ And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

rsv@Luke:15:6 @ And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, `Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.'

rsv@Luke:15:7 @ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

rsv@Luke:15:8 @ "Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

rsv@Luke:15:9 @ And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, `Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

rsv@Luke:15:10 @ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

rsv@Luke:15:11 @ And he said, "There was a man who had two sons;

rsv@Luke:15:12 @ and the younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them.

rsv@Luke:15:13 @ Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.

rsv@Luke:15:14 @ And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.

rsv@Luke:15:15 @ So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

rsv@Luke:15:16 @ And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything.

rsv@Luke:15:17 @ But when he came to himself he said, `How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger!

rsv@Luke:15:18 @ I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

rsv@Luke:15:19 @ I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants."'

rsv@Luke:15:20 @ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

rsv@Luke:15:21 @ And the son said to him, `Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

rsv@Luke:15:22 @ But the father said to his servants, `Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;

rsv@Luke:15:23 @ and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;

rsv@Luke:15:24 @ for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to make merry.

rsv@Luke:15:25 @ "Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

rsv@Luke:15:26 @ And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant.

rsv@Luke:15:27 @ And he said to him, `Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.'

rsv@Luke:15:28 @ But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,

rsv@Luke:15:29 @ but he answered his father, `Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

rsv@Luke:15:30 @ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!'

rsv@Luke:15:31 @ And he said to him, `Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

rsv@Luke:15:32 @ It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"

Luke 15