Now after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them.
For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth;
Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.
But he that received the one went away and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,