Add parallel Print Page Options

Or what woman having ten drachmas[a], if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until which time she finds it ? And having found it, she calls together her women friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice-with me, because I found the drachma which I lost!’ 10 In this manner, I say to you, joy comes-about in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting”.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:8 A drachma is a Greek coin equivalent to the Roman denarius. It is one day’s wage for a laborer.

Bible Gateway Recommends