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45 But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master delays to come,’ and should begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come in a day that he does not expect and in an hour that he does not know, and he will cut him in two and will appoint his portion with the unbelievers. 47 Now that servant, the one having known the will of his master and not having prepared nor having done according to his will, he will be beaten with many. 48 But the one not having known but having done things worthy of stripes will be beaten with few. And of everyone to whom much was given, much will be required; and from him to whom much was committed, more will they ask of him. 49 I came to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and how distressed I am until it should be accomplished! 51 Do you? think that I came to grant peace on the earth? No, I say to you?, but rather division. 52 For from now there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against the daughter and daughter against the mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.” 54 And He was also saying to the crowds, “When you? see the cloud rising up in the west, immediately you? say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens. 55 And when a south wind is blowing, you? say, ‘There will be heat,’ and it happens. 56 Hypocrites! The face of the earth and of the sky you? know to discern, but how do you? not know to discern this time? 57 And why do you? not even judge for yourselves what is right? 58 For as you are going with your adversary before a ruler, give effort to be set free from him in the way, lest ever he should drag you away to the judge, and the judge will deliver you to the officer, and the officer will cast you into prison. 59 I say to you, you shall never come out from there until you should pay back even the last lepton.” Luke 12:45-59, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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