Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴⁵ `Who is like a wise servant who can be trusted? His master will put him in charge of his other servants. He gives them their food at the right time.

⁴⁶ The servant who is doing this when his master comes, will be blessed.

⁴⁷ I tell you the truth. His master will put him in charge of all that he has.

⁴⁸ But if the servant is bad, he will say to himself, "My master will not come just now."

⁴⁹ Then he will begin to beat the other servants. He will eat and drink with men who are drunk.

⁵⁰ The master of that servant will come on a day the servant is not looking for him. He will not know the time he is coming home.

⁵¹ The master will punish him and lock him in with people who are not true. People there will cry and grind [make a noise with] their teeth.'