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“Suppose a woman has ten silver coins,[a] but she loses one of them. She will take a light and clean the house. She will look carefully for the coin until she finds it. And when she finds it, she will call her friends and neighbors and say to them, ‘Be happy with me because I have found the coin that I lost!’ 10 In the same way, it’s a happy time for the angels of God when one sinner decides to change.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 15:8 silver coins Each coin, a Greek drachma, was worth the average pay for one day’s work.

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