Luke 12:35-48

35Let your loins be girt, and your lamps burning; 36And ye yourselves like men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. 37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say to you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to eat, and will come forth and serve them. 38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have allowed his house to be broken into. 40Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

41Then Peter said to him, Lord, speakest thou this parable to us, or even to all? 42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? 43Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44Truly I say to you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk; 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 in two, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.1 47And that servant, who knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes . 48But he that knew not, and committed things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes . For to whomever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom men have committed much, from him they will ask the more.