Luke 15:10–18
10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”↗
11He said,“A certain man had two sons.↗
12The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.↗
13Not 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.↗
14When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.↗
15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.↗
16He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.↗
17But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!↗
18I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.↗
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