Matthew 24:42-51

42 Therefore, ¹stay awake, for you do not know on what day ²your Lord is coming.

43 ³But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night ⁴the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

44 Therefore you also must be ⁵ready, for ⁶the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

45 “Who then is ⁷the faithful and ⁸wise servant, ^[a] whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

46 ⁹Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

47 Truly, I say to you, ¹⁰he will set him over all his possessions.

48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master ¹¹is delayed, ’

49 and begins to beat his fellow servants^[b] and eats and drinks with ¹²drunkards,

50 the master of that servant will come ¹³on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know

51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place ¹⁴there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Cross References

• 1. 24:42 Mark 14:34-38; Luke 12:37; 21:36; Acts 20:31; 1 Thess. 5:6
• 2. 24:42 John 13:13
• 3. 24:43 For ver. 43-51, [Luke 12:39-46]
• 4. 24:43 [1 Thess. 5:2; 2 Pet. 3:10; Rev. 3:3]
• 5. 24:44 ch. 25:10
• 6. 24:44 ver. 27
• 7. 24:45 ch. 25:21; 1 Cor. 4:2; Heb. 3:5
• 8. 24:45 ch. 7:24; 10:16; 25:2
• 9. 24:46 John 13:17; Rev. 16:15
• 10. 24:47 ch. 25:21, 23
• 11. 24:48 ch. 25:5
• 12. 24:49 1 Thess. 5:7
• 13. 24:50 2 Pet. 3:12; [ch. 25:13]
• 14. 24:51 See ch. 8:12

Footnotes

• [a] 24:45 Greek 'bondservant'; also verses 46, 48, 50
• [b] 24:49 Greek 'bondservants'