“After a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his recompense in the body, according to what he has done, whether it was good or bad.
While the bridegroom delayed, they all rested and slept.
But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’
My brothers, not many of you should become teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.
But he who had received one went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.
Even David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness without works: