42"Therefore1be on the alert, for you do not knowwhichday your Lord is coming.
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"But be sure of this, that 2if the head of the house had known3at whattime of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
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"For thisreason4you also must be ready; for 5the Son of Man is coming at an hourwhen you do not think He will.
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"6Whothen is the 7faithful and 8sensibleslavewhom his master9put in charge of his household to give them their food at the propertime?
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"Blessed is that slavewhom his masterfindssodoing when he comes.
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"Truly I say to you that 10he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
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"But if that evilslavesays in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a longtime,'
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and begins to beat his fellowslaves and eat and drink with drunkards;
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the master of that slave will come on a daywhen he does not expect him and at an hourwhich he does not know,
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and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that placethere will be 11weeping and gnashing of teeth.