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And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
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And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
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And another came, saying, Lord, behold, [here is] thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
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For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou layedst not down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.
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And he saith to him, Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee, [thou] wicked servant. Thou knewest me to be an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow:
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Why then gavest thou not my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required my own with interest?
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And he said to them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give [it] to him that hath ten pounds.
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(And they said to him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)
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For I say to you, That to every one who hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even what he hath shall be taken away from him.
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But those my enemies, who would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay [them] before me.
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And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending towards Jerusalem.