38. For it will be just as it was in the days before the flood: eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, even until that day when Noah entered into the ark.
39. And they did not realize it, until the flood came and took them all away. So also will the advent of the Son of man be.
40. Then two men will be in a field: one will be taken up, and one will be left behind.
41. Two women will be grinding at a millstone: one will be taken up, and one will be left behind.
42. Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.
43. But know this: if only the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly keep vigil and not permit his house to be broken into.
44. For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return.
45. Consider this: who is a faithful and prudent servant, who has been appointed by his lord over his family, to give them their portion in due time?
46. Blessed is that servant, if, when his lord has arrived, he shall find him doing so.
47. Amen I say to you, he shall appoint him over all of his goods.
48. But if that evil servant has said in his heart, 'My lord has been delayed in returning,'
49. and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:
50. then the lord of that servant will arrive on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know.
51. And he shall separate him, and he shall place his portion with the hypocrites, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."