Matthew 25:19

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

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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.

As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works: