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"For 1where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Be in Readiness
35"2Be dressed in 3readiness, and keep your lampslit.
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"Be likemen who are waiting for their masterwhen he returns from the weddingfeast, so that they may immediatelyopen the door to him when he comes and knocks.
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"Blessed are thoseslaveswhom the master will find4on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that 5he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them.
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"6Whether he comes in the secondwatch, oreven in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
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"7But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at whathour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be 8broken into.
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"9You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."
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Petersaid, "Lord, are You addressingthisparable to us, or10to everyone else as well?"
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And 11the Lordsaid, "12Whothen is the faithful and sensible13steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the propertime?
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"Blessed is that 14slavewhom his masterfindssodoing when he comes.
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"Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.