25. So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is your own.
26. But his master answered him, You wicked and lazy and idle servant! Did you indeed know that I reap where I have not sowed and gather [grain] where I have not winnowed?
27. Then you should have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received what was my own with interest.
28. So take the talent away from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents.
29. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will be furnished richly so that he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.
30. And throw the good-for-nothing servant into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
31. When the Son of Man comes in His glory (His majesty and splendor), and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.
32. All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them [the people] from one another as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats; [Ezek. 34:17.]
33. And He will cause the sheep to stand at His right hand, but the goats at His left.
34. Then the King will say to those at His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father [you favored of God and appointed to eternal salvation], inherit (receive as your own) 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 brought Me together with yourselves and welcomed and entertained and lodged Me,
36. I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me with help and ministering care, I was in prison and you came to see Me. [Isa. 58:7.]
37. Then the just and upright will answer Him, Lord, when did we see You hungry and gave You food, or thirsty and gave You something to drink?
38. And when did we see You a stranger and welcomed and entertained You, or naked and clothed You?
39. And when did we see You sick or in prison and came to visit You?
40. And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least [in the estimation of men] of these My brethren, you did it for Me. [Prov. 19:17.]
41. Then He will say to those at His left hand, Begone from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!