Luke 12:41–48

⁴¹Peter said, “Lord, are You addressing this parable to us, or ^ato everyone else as well?”

⁴²And ^athe Lord said, “^bWho then is the faithful and sensible ^csteward, whom his master will put in charge of his ¹servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?

⁴³“Blessed is that ^aslave whom his ¹master finds so doing when he comes.

⁴⁴“Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

⁴⁵“But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master ¹will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;

⁴⁶the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷“And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will ^areceive many lashes,

⁴⁸but the one who did not ^aknow it, and committed deeds worthy of ¹a flogging, will receive but few. ^bFrom everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.