⁴²The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager^aq his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food^ar at the proper time? ⁴³Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes. ⁴⁴Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’^as and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces^D and assign him a place with the unfaithful.^E ⁴⁷And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it^F will be severely beaten.^at ⁴⁸But the one who did not know and did what deserved^au punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected.^G^a

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Footnotes

D him in two
EOr unbelievers
F or do toward his will,
GOr much

Cross references

aq Lk 16:1
ar 1Tm 6:8
as 1Jn 2:28
at Dt 25:2; Jms 4:17
au Lv 5:17; Nm 15:29
a Lv 5:17; Mt 13:12; Rm 1:20; 2:14; 1Tm 1:13