Luke 12:59

Where thou wilt suffer want until thou payest the last farthing; and this is what He adds, I say unto you, thou shalt not depart hence.

I tell you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last penny. That is, until you have paid for even the smallest sins. Because you will always be able to pay the penalties by suffering, but never able to obtain forgiveness in return (for there will be no place for forgiveness there), you will never come out from where you will bear the eternal penalties for your deeds.

"He drags you to the judge, and the judge hands you over to the officer". Each one of us, through each single sin, sustains a loss, and according to the quality and account of the offense the magnitude of the loss is reckoned. I ought to bring forward some testimony from the Scriptures concerning loss and a fine of money. One man sustains a loss of five hundred denarii and owes them; another is condemned in fifty denarii; which sum is remitted to both by the creditor. Further, another, as the Scripture says: "one was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents", is condemned in a debt of ten thousand talents. And what need is there for me to pursue more? Each one, according to the quality and quantity of his sin, receives a different sentence of fine. If it is little that you sin, you will be struck with the loss of a "mite", as Luke writes, or, as Matthew, of a "farthing". Nevertheless, it is also necessary to pay this very thing in which you have become a debtor; for you will not come out of the prison unless you have paid off even the very least things. But he who is faithful is struck by no loss, but is daily enriched; for the whole world of riches is his; the unbeliever, however, has not even an obol. One is condemned in a denarius, another in a mina, another in a talent. There is an examiner of this business, who knows the measures of all sins and says: This offense is condemned in a talent, that sin merits a fine of this kind. For it is written: "but when he had begun to make a reckoning". A "reckoning" must be computed for all of us. There is no other time for making the reckoning than the time of judgment, when it will be clearly known what has been entrusted to us and what gain or what loss we have made, which of us received a mina, which one talent, which two, which five. What need is there to repeat more, when it is enough to have said this in general, that we shall render an account and, if we are found to be debtors, be dragged to the judge and handed over by the judge to the officer? As individuals we have our own officers, but the whole multitude is handed over to several, according to that which is written in Isaiah: "my people, your officers plunder you, and those who are powerful lord it over you" — the officers lord it over us, if we owe anything. But if we have confidence and with free brow say: I have kept the precept that commands:…