Old Testament

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Matthew 25:26-35 New English Translation (NET)

26. But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?

27. Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

28. Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.

29. For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

30. And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where 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. All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

33. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his 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 something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

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