Matthew 24:32-51 ▼

32 And from the fig tree learn the allegory: when its branch may have already become tender, and it may put forth the leaves, you know that summer [is] near,

33 so also you, when you may see all these, you know that it is near—at the doors.

34 Truly I say to you, this generation may not pass away until all these may come to pass.

35 The heaven and the earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

36 And concerning that day and the hour no one has known—not even the messengers of the heavens—except My Father only;

37 and as the days of Noah—so will also be the coming of the Son of Man;

38 for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the Ark,

39 and they did not know until the flood came and took all away, so will also be the coming of the Son of Man.

40 Then two [men] will be in the field: one is received, and one is left;

41 two [women] will be grinding in the mill: one is received, and one is left.

42 Watch therefore, because you have not known in what hour your Lord comes;

43 and know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and did not permit his house to be broken through;

44 because of this also you, become ready, because in what hour you do not think, the Son of Man comes.

45 Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

46 Blessed that servant, whom his lord, having come, will find doing so;

47 truly I say to you that he will set him over all his substance.

48 And if that evil servant may say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

49 and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

50 the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he does not expect, and in an hour of which he does not know,

51 and will cut him off, and will appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.”