and begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to revel with drunkards:

But if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and begin to beat the men and maid-servants, and drink, and to be drunken:

When the master of the house shall have risen up and shut the door, and ye begin to stand without and knock at the door saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and He shall answer and say to you, I know you not, whence ye are:

then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drank in thy presence,

and he who invited thee and him, should come and say to thee, Give place to this person, and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.

But when these things begin to come to pass, look upwards and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, recommendatory epistles to you, or letters of recommendation from you?

For the time is coming when judgement is to begin at the house of God: and if at us first, what will be the end of those that obey not the gospel of God?