Luke 19:12-17

Modern English Version

¹² Therefore He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom and to return. ¹³ So he called his ten servants and entrusted to them ten pounds^[a] and said to them, ‘Trade until I come.’

¹⁴ “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

¹⁵ “When he returned, having received the kingdom, he summoned these servants, to whom he had entrusted the money, that he might know what everyone gained by trading.

¹⁶ “The first came, saying, ‘Master, your pound has made ten pounds more.’

¹⁷ “He said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in very little, take authority over ten cities.’