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Luke 12:46 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. "

Luke 12:46

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44 Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,

46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

47 That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

48 but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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Luke 12:1

"Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."

Luke 12:2

"But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known."

Luke 12:3

"Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops."

Luke 12:4

"“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do."

Luke 12:5

"But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him."

Luke 12:6

"“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God."

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