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Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning ,
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and be like men who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast ,
so that they may open to him immediately when he comes and knocks .
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Blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching when he comes .
Truly ,
I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit at table ,
and will come and serve them .
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If he comes in the second watch ,
or in the third ,
and finds them so ,
blessed are those servants .
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But know this ,
that if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming ,
he would not have allowed his house to be broken into .
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Therefore you also must be ready ,
for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect .«
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Peter said , »
Lord ,
are you telling this parable to us ,
or to all ?«
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And the Lord said , »
Who then is the faithful and wise steward ,
whom his master will set over his household ,
to give them their portion of food at the proper time ?
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Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes .
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Truly ,
I say to you ,
he will set him over all his possessions .
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But if that servant says to himself ,
My master is delayed in coming ,
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants ,
and to eat and drink and get drunk ,
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the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him ,
and at an hour he is not aware of ,
and he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers .
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And that servant who knew his master '
s will ,
and did not ready himself or do according to his will ,
shall be beaten with many stripes .
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But he who did not know ,
and committed things deserving of stripes ,
shall be beaten with few .
From everyone who has been given much ,
much will be required ;
and to whom they entrusted much ,
of him they will ask the more .