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and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.

It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner.

for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.

And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.

for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

It would be [more] profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.

nor shall they say, Lo here, or, Lo there; for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

For as the lightning shines which lightens from [one end] under heaven to [the other end] under heaven, thus shall the Son of man be in his day.

And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,

I say unto you, This [man] went down to his house justified rather than that [other]. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.