012:030 For though the nations of the world pursue these things, as for you, your Father knows that you need them. 012:031 But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition. 012:032 "Dismiss your fears, little flock: your Father finds a pleasure in giving you the Kingdom. 012:033 Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume. 012:034 For where your wealth is stored, there also will your heart be. 012:035 "Have your girdles on, and let your lamps be alight; 012:036 and be yourselves like men waiting for their master-- on the look-out till he shall return from the wedding feast-- that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door instantly. 012:037 Blessed are those servants, whom their Master when He comes shall find on the watch. I tell you in solemn truth, that He will tie an apron round Him, and will bid them recline at table while He comes and waits on them. 012:038 And whether it be in the second watch or in the third that He comes and finds them so, blessed are they. 012:039 Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake and not have allowed his house to be broken into. 012:040 Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come." 012:041 "Master," said Peter, "are you addressing this parable to us, or to all alike?" 012:042 "Who, then," replied the Lord, "is the faithful and intelligent steward whom his Master will put in charge of His household to serve out their rations at the proper times? 012:043 Blessed is that servant whom his Master when He comes shall find so doing. 012:044 I tell you truly that He will put him in authority over all His possessions. 012:045 But if that servant should say in his heart, `My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess; 012:046 that servant's Master will come on a day when he is not expecting Him and at an hour that he knows not of, and will punish him severely, and make him share the lot of the unfaithful. 012:047 And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes. 012:048 But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.