Matthew 25:23-33

23 His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
24 He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have your own.'
26 But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even that which he has will be taken away.
30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'
31 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his glory.
32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

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