But the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.
Then the next came and said, 'Here is your five pounds, sir; I kept it safe in a napkin,
Similarly the servant who had got the five hundred pounds made another five hundred.
Now a long time afterwards the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.