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Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
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But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
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For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.
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Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?
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Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
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Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
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But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
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And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
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The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.
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Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.