43 Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he[a] comes back. 44 Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45 But if that slave should say to himself,[b] ‘My master is taking a long time to return,’ and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 12:43 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“comes back”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 12:45 Literally “in his heart”