⁷ I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

³² I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

¹⁰ Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

¹³ And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.

¹² There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

³² But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

⁹ And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:

¹⁰ Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.

¹¹ The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

¹⁵ And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

²⁹ But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:

⁶ In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

⁷ But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

⁹ And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;