38. For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.
39. They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:
40. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one left.
41. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one left.
42. Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.
43. But know this: If the homeowner had known what time the thief was coming, he would have stayed alert and not let his house be broken into.
44. This is why you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45. “Who then is a faithful and sensible slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time?
46. That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.
47. I assure you: He will put him in charge of all his possessions.
48. But if that wicked slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,’
49. and starts to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards,
50. that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know.
51. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.