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Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.
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But of this be assured, that if the master of the house had known the hour at which the robber was coming, he would have kept awake, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.
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Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.
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"Who therefore is the loyal and intelligent servant to whom his master has entrusted the control of his household to give them their rations at the appointed time?
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Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes shall find so doing!
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In solemn truth I tell you that he will give him the management of all his wealth.
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But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, `My master is a long time in coming,'
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and should begin to beat his fellow servants, while he eats and drinks with drunkards;
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the master of that servant will arrive on a day when he is not expecting him and at an hour of which he has not been informed;
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he will treat him with the utmost severity and assign him a place among the hypocrites: there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.