43. Blessed is that servant if, when his Lord will return, he will find him acting in this manner.
44. Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over all that he possesses.
45. But if that servant will have said in his heart, 'My Lord has made a delay in his return,' and if he has begun to strike the men and women servants, and to eat and drink, and to be inebriated,
46. then the Lord of that servant will return on a day which he hoped not, and at an hour which he knew not. And he will separate him, and he will place his portion with that of the unfaithful.
47. And that servant, who knew the will of his Lord, and who did not prepare and did not act according to his will, will be beaten many times over.
48. Yet he who did not know, and who acted in a way that deserves a beating, will be beaten fewer times. So then, of all to whom much has been given, much will be required. And of those to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked.