45 But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’(A) and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces[a] and assign him a place with the unbelievers.[b] 47 And that slave who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it[c] will be severely beaten.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 12:46 Lit him in two
  2. Luke 12:46 Or unfaithful, or untrustworthy
  3. Luke 12:47 Lit or do toward his will

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