Matthew 24:29-51 ▼

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkned, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

30 then shall that sign, the son of man in the clouds of heaven, appear: and all the tribes of the land shall mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

31 and he shall send his messengers, who with the shrill sound of a trumpet, shall gather together his select from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other.

32 this may be illustrated by a comparison taken from a fig-tree: when the branches become tender, and push out their leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 in like manner, when ye shall see all these things happen, know that he is come to your very doors.

34 I declare unto you, the present generation shall not cease, till all these things are pass'd.

35 heaven and earth may fail, but my words shall never fail.

36 As to the day and hour, that no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but the father only.

37 as the days of Noe were, so shall also the advent of the son of man be.

38 for as at the time that usher'd in the deluge, they were eating and drinking, marrying themselves and their children, till the day that Noe entred into the ark,

39 having no thoughts of the flood till it came, and swept them all away; so shall also the advent of the son of man be.

40 of two persons, who shall be then in the field, one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 two women shall be grinding at the mill, the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 watch therefore, for ye know not at what hour your Lord shall come.

43 but this you conceive, that if a man knew at what hour of the night the thief would come, he would set a watch, and not suffer his house to be broke open.

44 therefore be ye also prepar'd: for the son of man may come at an hour you least expect.

45 If then there be a servant, appointed by his master to take care of his family, who faithfully and prudently distributes their allowance according to the establishment: happy is the servant,

46 who shall be found so employed, at his master's return.

47 I tell you, he shall make him steward of all his estate.

48 but if he be dishonest, and says to himself, my Lord delays coming,

49 and shall pretend to assault his fellow-servants, and spend his time with sots:

50 the master of that servant will come in a day when he least expects it, and at an hour he is not aware of;

51 and shall turn him out of the family, and give him the reward due to such behaviour: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.