Matthew 24:42–51

Be Ready for His Coming

⁴²“Therefore ^astay awake, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

⁴³“But ¹be sure of this, that ^aif the head of the house had known ^bat what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed his house to be ²broken into.

⁴⁴“For this reason ^ayou also must be ready; for ^bthe Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

⁴⁵“^aWho then is the ^bfaithful and ^cprudent slave whom his ¹master ^dput in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?

⁴⁶“Blessed is that slave whom his ¹master finds so doing when he comes.

⁴⁷“Truly I say to you that ^ahe will put him in charge of all his possessions.

⁴⁸“But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My ¹master ²is not coming for a long time,’

⁴⁹and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards;

⁵⁰the ¹master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know,

⁵¹and will ¹cut him in pieces and ²assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be ^aweeping and gnashing of teeth.