Hear another parable: There was a certain man, the master of a family, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and hired it out to husbandmen, and went into a distant country.

But he that had received the one talent, went and digged a hole in the ground, and hid the silver of his master.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal:

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor canker spoil, and where thieves do not dig through and steal;