Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Don’t Look Down On These Little Ones. God Does Not Want One of Them Lost

¹⁰ “See that you do not look-down-upon^[a] one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in the heavens are continually seeing^[b] the face of My Father in the heavens. ^{11 [c] 12} What seems right to you? If a hundred sheep belong to any man and one of them went-astray, will he not leave the ninety nine on the mountains, and having gone, be seeking the one going astray? ¹³ And if it comes about that he finds it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety nine not having gone astray. ¹⁴ So it is not the will in-the-sight-of ^[d] your Father in the heavens that one of these little ones should be-lost.