Luke Chapter 15

• Luke 15:1
  Luke.
• Luke 15:2
  Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
• Luke 15:3
  The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
• Luke 15:4
  He told them this parable:
• Luke 15:5
  “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was l...
• Luke 15:6
  When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
• Luke 15:7
  When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
• Luke 15:8
  I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
• Luke 15:9
  “Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she foun...
• Luke 15:10
  When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’
• Luke 15:11
  Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
• Luke 15:12
  He said, “A certain man had two sons.
• Luke 15:13
  The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
• Luke 15:14
  Not 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.
• Luke 15:15
  When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
• Luke 15:16
  He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
• Luke 15:17
  He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
• Luke 15:18
  But 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!
• Luke 15:19
  I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.
• Luke 15:20
  I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’
• Luke 15:21
  “He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kis...
• Luke 15:22
  The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
• Luke 15:23
  “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
• Luke 15:24
  Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate;
• Luke 15:25
  for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
• Luke 15:26
  “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
• Luke 15:27
  He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on.
• Luke 15:28
  He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’
• Luke 15:29
  But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
• Luke 15:30
  But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, t...
• Luke 15:31
  But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
• Luke 15:32
  “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
• Luke 15:33
  But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”