NET Bible
"But if that evil slave should say to himself,‘My master is staying away a long time,’"
— Matthew 24:48, NET Bible
“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;”
“But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth; ”
“But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'”
“But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming:”
“But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;”
“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;”
The Faithful and Wise Slave“Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes.
I tell you the truth, the master will put him in charge of all his possessions.
But if that evil slave should say to himself,‘My master is staying away a long time,’
and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards,
then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,
and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.