But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

Faith

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.

Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Inherit

Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.

General references

So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.