⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master ^(A)is delayed,’

¹⁹ Now ^(A)after a long time the master of those servants came and ^(B)settled accounts with them.

³⁷ For,

^4 (A)They will say, “Where is the promise of ^(B)his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

^9 (A)The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise ^(B)as some count slowness, but ^(C)is patient toward you,^{[a] (D)}not wishing that any should perish, but ^(E)that all should reach repentance.