²⁰ Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

¹³ The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

¹⁴ As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.

¹⁵ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.

²⁴ "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

⁹ Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

⁴⁶ "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

¹³ He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,{10 minas was more than 3 year's wages for an agricultural laborer.} and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'

¹⁷ To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.