Luke 12:37–45

³⁷Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.↗

³⁸They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.↗

³⁹But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.↗

⁴⁰Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”↗

⁴¹Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”↗

⁴²The Lord said,“Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?↗

⁴³Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.↗

⁴⁴Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.↗

⁴⁵But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,↗