Luke 12:28-47

²⁸Yf the grasse which is todaye in the felde and tomorowe shalbe cast into the fornace God so clothe: how moche moore will he clothe you o ye endued with litell faith?

²⁹And axe not what ye shall eate or what ye shall drinke nether clyme ye vp an hye

³⁰for all suche thinges the hethen people of the worlde seke for. Youre father knoweth that ye have nede of suche thinges.

³¹Wherfore seke ye after the kyngedome of God and all these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.

³²Feare not litell floocke for it is youre fathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome.

³³Sell that ye have and geve almes. And make you bagges which wexe not olde and treasure that fayleth not in heaven where noo these commeth nether moth corrupteth.

³⁴For where youre treasure is there will youre hertes be also.

³⁵Let youre loynes be gerdde about and youre lightes brennynge

³⁶and ye youre selves lyke vnto men that wayte for their master when he will returne from a weddinge: that assone as he cometh and knocketh they maye open vnto him.

³⁷Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them.

³⁸And yf he come in the seconde watche ye if he come in the thyrde watche and shall fynde them soo happy are those servauntes.

³⁹This vnderstonde that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre ye these wolde come he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp.

⁴⁰Be ye prepared therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

⁴¹Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master tellest thou this similitude vnto vs or to all men?

⁴²And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:

⁴³happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge.

⁴⁴Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

⁴⁵But and yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cominge and shall beginne to smyte the servauntes and maydens and to eate and drinke and to be dronken:

⁴⁶the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not and at an houre when he is not ware and will devyde him and will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.

⁴⁷The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes.