Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them.
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep.
But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;
Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place.
As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,