7. In the same way, I tell you there is much joy in heaven when 1 sinner changes his heart. There is more joy for that 1 sinner than there is for 99 good people who don’t need to change.
8. “Suppose a woman has ten silver coins, but she loses one of them. She will light a lamp and clean the house. She will look carefully for the coin until she finds it.
9. And when she finds it, she will call her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Be happy with me because I have found the coin that I lost!’
10. In the same way, there is joy before the angels of God when 1 sinner changes his heart.”
11. Then Jesus said, “A man had two sons.