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Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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Sell what ye have and give alms; {lit. do acts of mercy}; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches neither moth corrupts.
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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Let your loins be girded about and
your lamps burning,
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and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately.
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Blessed
are those slaves, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to food and will come forth and serve them.
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And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find
them so, blessed are those slaves.
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And know this: that if the husband of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
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Be ye therefore ready also; for the Son of man comes at an hour when ye think not.
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Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us or even to all?
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And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom
his lord shall make ruler over his household to give
them their portion of food in due season?