Luke 12:46
Good News Translation
then the master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know. The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the disobedient.

New Revised Standard Version
the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and put him with the unfaithful.

Contemporary English Version
If that happens, the master will come on a day and at a time when the servant least expects him. That servant will then be punished and thrown out with the servants who cannot be trusted.

New American Bible
then that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not: and shall separate him and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not: and shall separate him and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.

lord.

Luke 12:19,20,40 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

cut him in sunder.

Psalm 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

Psalm 94:14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

and will appoint.

Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Psalm 11:5 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.

Matthew 7:22,23 Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? . . .

Matthew 13:41,42,49,50 The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. . . .

the unbelievers.

Matthew 24:51 And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Context
Be Ready for Service
45But if that servant shall say in his heart: My Lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk: 46The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not: and shall separate him and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers. 47And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.…
Cross References
Matthew 24:50
The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not and at an hour that he knoweth not:

Luke 12:45
But if that servant shall say in his heart: My Lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

Luke 12:47
And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Luke 12:45
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