Luke:15

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* And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him ; * and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured , saying , This [man ] receives sinners and eats with them . * And he spoke to them this parable , saying , * What man of you having a hundred sheep , and having lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost , until he find it ? * and having found it , he lays it upon his own shoulders , rejoicing ; * and being come to the house , calls together the friends and the neighbours , saying to them , Rejoice with me , for I have found my lost sheep . * I say unto you , that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner , [more ] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance . * Or , what woman having ten drachmas , if she lose one drachma , does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it ? * and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours , saying , Rejoice with me , for I have found the drachma which I had lost . * Thus , I say unto you , there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner . * And he said , A certain man had two sons ; * and the younger of them said to his father , Father , give to me the share of the property that falls [to me ]. And he divided to them what he was possessed of . * And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off , and there dissipated his property , living in debauchery . * But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country , and he began to be in want . * And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country , and he sent him into his fields to feed swine . * And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating ; and no one gave to him . * And coming to himself , he said , How many hired servants of my father 's have abundance of bread , and I perish here by famine . * I will rise up and go to my father , and I will say to him , Father , I have sinned against heaven and before thee ; * I am no longer worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants . * And he rose up and went to his own father . But while he was yet a long way off , his father saw him , and was moved with compassion , and ran , and fell upon his neck , and covered him with kisses . * And the son said to him , Father , I have sinned against heaven and before thee ; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son . * But the father said to his bondmen , Bring out the best robe and clothe him in [it ], and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet ; * and bring the fatted calf and kill it , and let us eat and make merry : * for this my son was dead and has come to life , was lost and has been found . And they began to make merry . * And his elder son was in the field ; and as , coming [up ], he drew nigh to the house , he heard music and dancing . * And having called one of the servants , he inquired what these things might be . * And he said to him , Thy brother is come , and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and well . * But he became angry and would not go in . And his father went out and besought him . * But he answering said to his father , Behold , so many years I serve thee , and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine ; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends : * but when this thy son , who has devoured thy substance with harlots , is come , thou hast killed for him the fatted calf . * But he said to him , Child , thou art ever with me , and all that is mine is thine . * But it was right to make merry and rejoice , because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again , and was lost and has been found .

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