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And he said to him, 'Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
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And the second came, saying, 'Lord, your pound has made five pounds.'
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And he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
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Then another came, saying, 'Lord, here is your pound, which I kept laid away in a napkin;
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for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'
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He said to him, 'I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
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Why then did you not put my money into the bank, and at my coming I should have collected it with interest?'
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And he said to those who stood by, 'Take the pound from him, and give it to him who has the ten pounds.'
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(And they said to him, 'Lord, he has ten pounds!')
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'I tell you, that to every one who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
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But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'"