Luke 12:48
Verse 48 of 59. The 12th of 24 chapters in Luke, in The Gospels.
44Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
46then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
47That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
48but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
49“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
51Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
52For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.