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Blessed is that bondman whom his lord [on] coming shall find doing thus;
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verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he has.
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But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,
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the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.
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But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself] nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes];
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but he who knew [it] not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom [men] have committed much, they will ask from him the more.
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I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled?
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But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!
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Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division:
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for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:
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father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.