Luke 12:31-49

³¹Nevertheless seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be cast to you.

³²Do not ye, little flock, dread, for it pleased to your Father to give you a kingdom.

³³Sell ye those things that ye have in possession or that ye wield, and give ye alms. And make to you satchels that wax not old, treasure that faileth not in heavens, whither a thief nigh-eth not, neither moth destroyeth.

³⁴For where is thy treasure, there thine heart shall be. Forsooth where thy treasure is, there also thine heart shall be.

³⁵Be your loins girded above, and lanterns burning in your hands;

³⁶and be ye like to men that abide their lord, when he shall turn again from the weddings, that when he shall come, and knock, anon they open to him.

³⁷Blessed be those servants, that when the lord shall come, he shall find waking. Truly I say to you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit to or at the meat, and he shall go, and serve them.

³⁸And if he come in the second waking, and if he come in the third waking, and find so, those servants be blessed.

³⁹And know ye this thing, for if an husbandman knew, in what hour the thief would come, soothly he should wake, and not suffer his house to be under-mined.

⁴⁰And be ye ready, for in what hour ye guess not, man’s Son shall come.

⁴¹And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or to all?

⁴²And the Lord said, Who, guessest thou, is a true or a faithful dispenser, and prudent, whom the lord hath ordained on his meine, to give them in time a measure of wheat?

⁴³Blessed is that servant, that the lord when he cometh, shall find so doing.

⁴⁴Verily I say to you, that on all things that he wieldeth, he shall ordain him.

⁴⁵That if that servant say in his heart, My lord tarrieth to come; and begin to smite children, and hand-maidens, and eat, and drink, and be filled or full-filled over-measure,

⁴⁶the lord of that servant shall come, in the day that he hopeth not, and in the hour that he knoweth not, and shall part him, and put his part with unfaithful men.

⁴⁷But that servant that knew the will of his lord, and made not him ready, and did not after his will, shall be beaten with many beatings.

⁴⁸But he that knew not, and did worthy things of strokes, shall be beaten with few. For to each man to whom much is given, much shall be asked of him; and they shall ask more of him, to whom they betook much.

⁴⁹I came to send fire into the earth, and what will I, but that it be kindled?