Now after a long time the lord of those bondmen comes, and takes up accounting with them.
For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming,
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.
But having departed, the man who received the one dug in the ground, and hid his lord's silver.
Just as David also tells the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness independent of works,