Luke 12:33-58

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;

⁴⁸but he that knew not and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few. And from every one to whom much hath been given, will much be required; and to whom much hath been entrusted, of him will the more be demanded.

⁴⁹I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I wish, if it hath been already kindled?

⁵⁰But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how is my soul troubled, till it be accomplished!

⁵¹Think ye that I came to give peace in the earth? I tell you, nay, but rather division.

⁵²For from this time forth five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

⁵³They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

⁵⁴And he said also to the multitudes, When ye see a cloud rising in the west, ye say at once, A shower is coming; and it is so;

⁵⁵and when ye perceive the south wind blowing, ye say, It will be hot; and it cometh to pass.

⁵⁶Hypocrites! ye know how to judge of the face of the earth and the sky; but how is it that ye know not how to judge of this time

⁵⁷And why even of yourselves do ye not judge what is right?

⁵⁸When thou art going with thine adversary at law to the magistrate, take pains, while on the way, to be released by him; lest he drag thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.