But the man who had received the one went and dug a hole and buried his master's money.
In the same way he who had the two gained two more.
»After a long lapse of time the master of those servants returned, and had a reckoning with them.«
»The next came.« `Sir,' he said, `here is your pound, which I have kept wrapt up in a cloth.
so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.
If these things exist in you, and continually increase, they prevent your being either idle or unfruitful in advancing towards a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.