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Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
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Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
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But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
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then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him apart, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
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That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
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but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom they deposit much, of him will they ask more.
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"I came to throw fire on the eretz. I wish it were already kindled.
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But I have a immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
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Do you think that I have come to give shalom in the eretz? I tell you, no, but rather division.
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For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
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They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."