12Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

13Neither yield you your members as instruments of sin to sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.

15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.

17But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, to that form of teaching, into which you have been rescued.

18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of righteousness.

4For our soul is greatly satisfied: we are a shame to the rich, and disgrace to the proud.

39But this know you, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

40Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of Man will come.

41And Peter said to him: Lord, do you speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

42And the Lord said: Who (thinkest you) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?

43Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.

44Truly I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.

45But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

46The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knows not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his share with unbelievers.

47And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

48But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And to whomever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.