⁷ I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, `more' than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.

³² I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.

¹⁰ Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

¹³ And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.

¹² There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And `yet' are not washed from their filthiness.

³² But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive `again'; and `was' lost, and is found.

⁹ And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:

¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

²⁹ But he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, and I never transgressed a commandment of thine; and `yet' thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

⁶ as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

⁷ Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

⁹ And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;