The hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf carries off some of the sheep and scatters the flock.

At last the rest of the bridesmaids came, and kept begging, 'Master, master, open the door for us!'

His master said to him 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm.

So the slave returned and reported these answers to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, 'Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor, the maimed, the crippled, and the blind.'

So he called in each of his master's debtors, and asked the first one, 'How much do you owe my master?'

The doorkeeper opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

So when he gets his sheep all out, he goes on before them, and the sheep come on behind him, because they know his voice.

I am the good shepherd myself. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will listen to my voice, and all my sheep will become one flock with one shepherd.

Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

Who are you to criticize another man's servant? It is his own master's business whether he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord has power to make him stand.

So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be an instrument for honorable uses, consecrated, useful for the Master, and ready for any good service.

No pupil is better than his teacher, and no slave is better than his master.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

And the farmer's slaves came up to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where did the wild wheat plants come from?'

They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

She said, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs usually eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

And because he could not pay it, his master ordered him to be sold, yea, even his wife and children and all he had, and payment to be made.

And his master's heart was moved with pity, and he let the slave go free with his debt cancelled.

"When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly troubled, and went and reported all that happened to their master.

Then his master called to him, and said, 'I cancelled all that huge debt of yours, because you pleaded with me to do so.

And the master was enraged and turned him over to the official torturers, until he should pay the whole debt.

For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Then in a loud voice they cried out, "Holy and true Master, how long will you refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon the inhabitants of the earth?"

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in exactly what part of the night the thief would come, he would have been on guard and would not have let his house be broken into.

"Who then is the faithful and thoughtful slave, whom his master put in charge of his household, to deal out to the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that slave if, when his master comes back, he finds him so doing.

But if the slave is bad and says to himself, 'My master is going to be gone a long time,'

the master of that slave will come on the very day he is not expecting him,

But the man who had received the one thousand went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master's money.

After a long time the master of those slaves came back and settled accounts with them.

Then the man who had received the two thousand came up and said, 'Master, you turned over to me two thousand dollars; here are two thousand more I made.'

Then the man who had received the one thousand came up and said, 'Master, I knew you were a hard man, who reaped where you had not sown, who gathered where you had not threshed.

His master answered him, 'You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed.