Luke 12:31-49

³¹Netheles seke ye first the kyngdom of God, and alle these thingis schulen be caste to you.

³²Nile ye, litil flok, drede, for it pleside to youre fadir to yyue you a kyngdom.

³³Selle ye tho thingis that ye han in possessioun, and yyue ye almes. And make to you sachels that wexen not oolde, tresoure that failith not in heuenes, whidir a theef neiyith not, nether mouyt destruyeth.

³⁴For where is thi tresoure, there thin herte schal be.

³⁵Be youre leendis gird aboue, and lanternes brennynge in youre hoondis;

³⁶and be ye lijk to men that abiden her lord, whanne he schal turne ayen fro the weddyngis, that whanne he schal come, and knocke, anoon thei openen to hym.

³⁷Blessid be tho seruauntis, that whanne the lord schal come, he schal fynde wakynge. Treuli Y seie to you, that he schal girde hym silf, and make hem sitte to mete, and he schal go, and serue hem.

³⁸And if he come in the secounde wakynge, and if he come in the thridde wakynge, and fynde so, tho seruauntis ben blessid.

³⁹And wite ye this thing, for if an hosebonde man wiste, in what our the theef wolde come, sotheli he schulde wake, and not suffre his hous to be myned.

⁴⁰And be ye redi, for in what our ye gessen not, mannus sone schal come.

⁴¹And Petre seide to hym, Lord, seist thou this parable to vs, or to alle?

⁴²And the Lord seide, Who, gessist thou, is a trewe dispendere, and a prudent, whom the lord hath ordeyned on his meyne, to yyue hem in tyme mesure of whete?

⁴³Blessid is that seruaunt, that the lord whanne he cometh, schal fynde so doynge.

⁴⁴Verili Y seie to you, that on alle thingis that he weldith, he schal ordeyne hym.

⁴⁵That if that seruaunt seie in his herte, My lord tarieth to come; and bigynne to smyte children, and handmaydenes, and ete, and drynke, and be fulfillid ouer mesure,

⁴⁶the lord of that seruaunt schal come, in the dai that he hopith not, and the our that he woot not; and schal departe hym, and putte his part with vnfeithful men.

⁴⁷But thilke seruaunt that knew the wille of his lord, and made not hym redi, and dide not aftir his wille, schal be betun with many betyngis.

⁴⁸But he that knew not, and dide worthi thingis of strokis, schal be betun with fewe. For to eche man to whom myche is youun, myche schal be axid of hym; and thei schulen axe more of hym, to whom thei bitoken myche.

⁴⁹Y cam to sende fier `in to the erthe, and what wole Y, but that it be kyndlid?