⁷ `I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

³² I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

¹⁰ `So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

¹³ and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;

¹² A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

³² but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

⁹ And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

¹⁰ `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;

¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;

²⁹ and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

⁶ according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

⁹ And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;