Matthew 18:10-14 - The Parable Of The Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, That their angels in heaven do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven. ¹¹ For the Son of man has come to save that which is lost. ¹² What think you? If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine, and go into the mountains, and seek for that which has gone astray? ¹³ And if it so be that he find it, verily I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. ¹⁴ Even so, it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should be lost.

¹ And all the publicans and the sinners came near to him to hear him. ² And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receives sinners, and eats with them.

³ And he spoke this parable to them, saying: ⁴ What man of you that has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which is lost, till he find it? ⁵ And when he finds it, he puts it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, and says to them., Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost. ⁷ I say to you, That thus there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons, who need no repentance.