Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief;
He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,
The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!” As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
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