Matthew 25:19

James Moffatt - New Testament

Now a long time afterwards the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

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for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.

As the bridegroom was long of coming, they all grew drowsy and went to sleep.

But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,'

My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.

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.

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does —