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"Now the one who had received one talent came forward and said, `I knew you were a hard man. You harvest where you didn't plant and gather where you didn't sow seed.
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I was afraid, so I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here! Take what belongs to you!'
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`You wicked, lazy servant!' said his master, `So you knew, did you, that I harvest where I haven't planted? and that I gather where I didn't sow seed?
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Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would at least have gotten back interest with my capital!
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Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.
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For everyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.
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As for this worthless servant, throw him out in the dark, where people will wail and grind their teeth!'
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"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, accompanied by all the angels, he will sit on his glorious throne.
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All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.
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The `sheep' he will place at his right hand and the `goats' at his left.
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"Then the King will say to those on his right, `Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.