Matthew 24:36-51

36“Now concerning that day and hour no one knows — neither the angels of heaven nor the Son — except the Father alone.

37As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

38For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.

39They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be.

40Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

41Two women will be grinding grain with a hand mill; one will be taken and one left.

42Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.

43But know this: If the homeowner had known what time the thief was coming, he would have stayed alert and not let his house be broken into.

44This is why you are also to be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

45“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time?

46Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes.

47Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

48But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,’

49and starts to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with drunkards,

50that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know.

51He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.