After a long time the lord 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 the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’
My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money.
just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: