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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 15 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Luke 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/14.htm" title="Luke 14">◄</a> Luke 15 <a href="../luke/16.htm" title="Luke 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/luke/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Parable of the Lost Sheep</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So Jesus told them this story: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!</span></p><p class="hdg">Parable of the Lost Coin</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”</span></p><p class="hdg">Parable of the Lost Son</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: <span class="red">“A man had two sons.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">“A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">“When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">“So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>’</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">“But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">And kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party began.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">“Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">and he asked one of the servants what was going on.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">‘Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.’</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">“The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">“His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:8 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">ten drachmas.</span><span class="ft"> A drachma was the equivalent of a full day’s wage.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:21 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add </span><span class="it">Please take me on as a hired servant.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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