geneva Luke:12:35-48
geneva@Luke:12:35 @
geneva@Luke:12:36 @ And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.
geneva@Luke:12:37 @ Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde waking: verely I say vnto you, he will girde himselfe about, and make them to sit downe at table, and will come forth, and serue them.
geneva@Luke:12:38 @ And if he come in the seconde watch, or come in the third watch, and shall finde them so, blessed are those seruants.
geneva@Luke:12:39 @ Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged through.
geneva@Luke:12:40 @
geneva@Luke:12:41 @ Then Peter saide vnto him, Master, tellest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?
geneva@Luke:12:42 @ 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] (note:)That is, every month the measure of corn that was given to them.(:note) portion of meat in due season?
geneva@Luke:12:43 @ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.
geneva@Luke:12:44 @ Of a trueth I say vnto you, that he wil make him ruler ouer all that he hath.
geneva@Luke:12:45 @ But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,
geneva@Luke:12:46 @ The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.
geneva@Luke:12:47 @ And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.
geneva@Luke:12:48 @ 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 (note:)More than the one who did not receive as much.(:note) the more.