Luke 12:28-47

²⁸But if God so clothes the herbage in the field, which is to-day, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!

²⁹And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink; and be not of a doubtful mind.

³⁰For all these things do the nations of the world seek after; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

³¹But rather seek his kingdom, and these things will also be given you.

³²Fear not, little flock! for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

³³Sell what ye have, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which wax not old, treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, nor moth destroyeth.

³⁴For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

³⁵Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;

³⁶and be yourselves like men waiting for the return of their lord from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

³⁷Happy are those servants, whom their lord when he cometh shall find watching; truly do I say to you, that he will gird himself, and place them at table, and will come and wait on them.

³⁸And if in the second, or if in the third watch, he cometh and findeth them thus, happy are they.

³⁹And be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

⁴⁰Be ye also ready; for at an hour when ye think not the Son of man cometh.

⁴¹And Peter said to him, Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or also to all?

⁴²And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful, the wise steward, whom his lord will place over his household, to give the portion of food in due season?

⁴³Happy is that servant whom his lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.

⁴⁴I say to you in truth, that he will place him in charge of all his substance.

⁴⁵But if that servant say in his heart, My lord is long in coming; and begin to beat the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and drink and be drunken,

⁴⁶the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the unfaithful.

⁴⁷And that servant who knew his lord's will, and did not make ready, nor do according to his will, will be beaten with many stripes;