Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.

So the servant fell on his knees before him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.'

So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you back.'

But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe.'

Truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.

I tell you, you will not get out till you have paid the very last copper."

Then he also said to the one who invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers, your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

"Thus, when you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

"And when you fast, do not look gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

And as he was not able to pay, his master ordered that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

But he refused, and went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"