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Matthew 25:27-41 English Standard Version (ESV)

27. Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

28. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

29. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

30. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

31. “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

32. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

33. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

34. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

35. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

36. I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

37. Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

38. And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

39. And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

40. And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,you did it to me.’

41. “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

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