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Luke 15
⁹ And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’
¹⁰ In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”
¹¹ To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons.
¹² The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.
¹³ “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.
¹⁴ About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve.
¹⁵ He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
¹⁶ The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.
¹⁷ “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!
¹⁸ I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you,
¹⁹ and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’