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42 Therefore wake ye, for ye know not in what hour the Lord shall come. [Therefore wake ye, for ye know not in what hour your Lord is to come.]

43 But know ye this, that if the husbandman knew in what hour the thief were to come [for if the husbandman knew in what hour the thief should come], certainly he would wake, and suffer not his house to be undermined.

44 And therefore [also] be ye ready [Therefore and ye be ready], for in what hour ye guess not, man's Son shall come.

45 Who guessest thou is a true servant and prudent [Who guessest thou is a faithful servant and prudent], whom his lord ordained on his household, to give them meat in time?

46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord, when he shall come [when he come], shall find so doing.

47 Truly I say to you, for on [upon] all his goods he shall ordain him.

48 But if that evil servant [shall] say in his heart, My lord tarrieth to come,

49 and beginneth to smite his even-servants [and shall begin to smite his even-servants], and to eat, and drink with drunken men;

50 the lord of that servant shall come in the day [in] which he hopeth not, and in the hour that he knoweth not,

51 and shall part him (in pieces), and put his part with hypocrites; there shall be weeping, and grinding of teeth [there shall be weeping, and beating together of teeth].

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