30. All the nations of the world seek for these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
31. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these other things will be given you besides.
32. Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
33. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.
34. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
35. “Gird your loins and light your lamps
36. and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
37. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
38. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants.
39. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
40. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”
41. Then Peter said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?”
42. And the Lord replied, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will put in charge of his servants to distribute [the] food allowance at the proper time?
43. Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so.
44. Truly, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.
45. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,
46. then that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.