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`And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;
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and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'
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And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?'
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And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?
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Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;
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truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him.
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`And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;
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the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for [him], and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
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`And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,
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and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.
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`Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?