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The Parable of the Faithful & Evil
Servant
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their
lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he
cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh
shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he
shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat,
and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come
in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and
find them so, blessed are those servants. And this know,
that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the
thief would come, he would have watched, and not have
suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore
ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye
think not.
Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this
parable unto us, or even to all?
And the Lord said, Who then is
that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make
ruler over his household, to give them their portion of
meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his
lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I
say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that
he hath. But and if that servant say in his heart, My
lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the
menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be
drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day
when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is
not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint
him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant,
which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself,
neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with
many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit
things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few
stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall
be much required: and to whom men have committed much,
of him they will ask the more.
Luke 12: 35-48 |
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