Matthew 24:32-51 ▼

32 And from the fig tree learn a parable; When already her young shoot should be tender, and the leaves should spring forth, ye know that summer is near:

33 So also ye, when ye should see all these things, know ye that it is near at the doors.

34 Truly I say to you, That this generation should not pass away, till all these things should be.

35 The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words should not pass away.

36 And concerning that day and hour, none know, nor the messengers of the heavens, except my Father only.

37 And as the days of Noe, so shall be the arrival of the Son of man.

38 For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark,

39 And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.

40 Then shall be two in the field; one shall be taken, and one is let go;

41 Two grinding in the mill; one shall be taken, and one let go.

42 Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord comes.

43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined.

44 Therefore be ye also prepared: for what hour ye think not, the Son of man comes.

45 Who then is the faithful and discerning servant, which his lord set over his attendance, to give them food in due season.

46 Happy that servant which his lord, having come, shall find doing thus.

47 Truly I say to you, That he shall set him over all his possessions.

48 But if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays to come;

49 And he should begin to strike the fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with those intoxicated;

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not,

51 And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.