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"Therefore ^(bc)be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

But ^[af]be sure of this, that ^(bd)if the head of the house had known ^(be)at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be ^[ag]broken into.

For this reason ^(bf)you also must be ready; for ^(bg)the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

"^(bh)Who then is the ^(bi)faithful and ^(bj)sensible slave whom his ^[ah]master ^(bk)put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?

Blessed is that slave whom his ^[ai]master finds so doing when he comes.

Truly I say to you that ^(bl)he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My ^[aj]master ^[ak]is not coming for a long time,'

and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards;

the ^[al]master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know,

and will ^[am]cut him in pieces and ^[an]assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be ^(bm)weeping and gnashing of teeth.