Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 15:10 in context
Luke 15:7–13
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I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
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“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
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When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’
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Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
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He said, “A certain man had two sons.
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The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
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Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
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