“I say to you that [more] joy will be in Heaven over one sinner converting, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of conversion.”— Luke 15:7 (LSV)
4“What man of you having one hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, until he may find it?
5And having found, he lays [it] on his shoulders rejoicing,
6and having come into the house, he calls together the friends and the neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep—the lost one.
7I say to you that [more] joy will be in Heaven over one sinner converting, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of conversion.
8Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she may lose one drachma, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she may find?
9And having found, she calls together the female friends and the neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachma that I lost.
10So I say to you, joy comes before the messengers of God over one sinner converting.”