Matthew:25:14-30

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* For , like a man going on a journey , he called his own bondmen , and delivered to them the things possessed by him . * And to one he gave five talents , to another two , to another one , to each according to his personal ability , and straightaway he journeyed . * And having departed , the man who received the five talents worked with them , and made five other talents . * And likewise also the man of the two gained two others . * But having departed , the man who received the one dug in the ground , and hid his lord 's silver . * Now after a long time the lord of those bondmen comes , and takes up accounting with them . * And having come , the man who received the five talents brought five other talents , saying , Lord , thou delivered five talents to me , lo , I have gained five other talents besides them . * And his lord said to him , Well , good and faithful bondman . Thou were faithful over a few things , I will appoint thee over many things . Enter thou into the joy of thy lord . * And also having come , the man who received the two talents said , Lord , thou delivered two talents to me , lo , I have gained two other talents besides them . * His lord said to him , Well , good and faithful bondman . Thou were faithful over a few things , I will appoint thee over many things . Enter thou into the joy of thy lord . * And the man who received the one talent also having come , said , Lord , I knew thee that thou are a hard man , reaping where thou did not sow , and gathering from where thou did not scatter . * And after being afraid , having gone , I hid thy talent in the ground . Lo , thou have thine own . * But having answered , his lord said to him , Thou evil and lazy bondman , thou knew that I reap where I sowed not , and gather from where I did not scatter . * Thou ought therefore to have placed my silver with the bankers , and having come I would have received back my own with interest . * Take ye therefore the talent from him , and give it to him who has the ten talents . * For to every man who has will be given , and he will have abundance , but from him who has not , even what he has will be taken away from him . * And cast ye the unprofitable bondman into the outer darkness . There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth .

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