Luke 15:1-7 ▼

1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him.

2 And both the scribes and the Pharisees were murmuring, saying, "This Man receiveth sinners and eateth with them!"

3 And He spake to them this parable, saying,

4 "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and losing one of them, does not leave behind the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after the lost one, until he finds it?

5 And, finding it , he places it upon his shoulders, rejoicing:

6 and, coming to his house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep, which was lost.

7 I say to you, that so there will be joy in Heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance.