Matthew 25:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nowe while the bridegrome taried long, all slumbred and slept.

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  • Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that euil seruant shal say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,
  • Matt 25:19 : 19 But after a long season, the master of those seruants came, and reckoned with them.
  • Matt 26:40 : 40 After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? Coulde yee not watch with me one houre?
  • Matt 26:43 : 43 And he came, and founde them a sleepe againe, for their eyes were heauie.
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 Then hee came, and founde them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watche one houre? 38 Watch ye, and pray, that ye enter not into tentation: the spirite in deede is ready, but the flesh is weake.
  • Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?
  • Luke 20:9 : 9 Then began he to speake to ye people this parable, A certaine man planted a vineyarde, and let it forth to husbandmen: and went into a strange countrey, for a great time.
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise fro sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer, then when we beleeued it.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.
  • Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For ye haue neede of patience, that after ye haue done the will of God, ye might receiue the promes. 37 For yet a very litle while, and hee that shall come, will come, and will not tary.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:
  • 2 Pet 3:4-9 : 4 And say, Where is the promes of his coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly know not, that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God. 6 Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water. 7 But the heauens and earth, which are nowe, are kept by the same word in store, and reserued vnto fire against the day of condemnation, and of the destruction of vngodly men. 8 Dearely beloued, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lorde, as a thousande yeeres, and a thousande yeeres as one day. 9 The Lord of that promes is not slacke (as some men count slackenesse) but is pacient toward vs, and would haue no man to perish, but would all men to come to repentance.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But that which ye haue alreadie, hold fast till I come.
  • Song 3:1 : 1 In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.
  • Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 Then the mariners were afraide, and cryed euery man vnto his God, and cast the wares that were in the ship, into the sea to lighten it of the: but Ionah was gone downe into the sides of the ship, and he lay downe, and was fast a sleepe. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and saide vnto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shal speake, and not lie: though it tarie, waite: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.

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  • Matt 25:6-14
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    6And at midnight there was a crie made, Behold, the bridegrome commeth: goe out to meete him.

    7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lampes.

    8And the foolish said to the wise, Giue vs of your oyle, for our lampes are out.

    9But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there will not be ynough for vs and you: but goe ye rather to them that sell, and bye for your selues.

    10And while they went to bye, the bridegrome came: and they that were readie, went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut.

    11Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs.

    12But he answered, and said, Verely I say vnto you, I knowe you not.

    13Watch therfore: for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, when the sonne of man will come.

    14For the kingdome of heauen is as a man that going into a strange countrey, called his seruants, and deliuered to them his goods.

  • Matt 25:1-4
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    1Then ye kingdome of heauen shalbe likened vnto tenne virgins, which tooke their lampes, and went foorth to meete the bridegrome.

    2And fiue of them were wise, & fiue foolish.

    3The foolish tooke their lampes, but tooke none oyle with them.

    4But the wise tooke oyle in their vessels with their lampes.

  • Matt 13:25
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    25But while men slept, there came his enemie, and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his waie.

  • Matt 22:2-5
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    2The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a certaine King which maried his sonne,

    3And sent foorth his seruants, to call them that were bidde to the wedding, but they woulde not come.

    4Againe hee sent foorth other seruants, saying. Tell them which are bidden, Beholde, I haue prepared my dinner: mine oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all thinges are readie: come vnto the mariage.

    5But they made light of it, and went their wayes, one to his farme, and another about his marchandise.

  • Mark 13:35-36
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    35Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)

    36Least if he come suddenly, he should finde you sleeping.

  • Luke 12:35-36
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    35Let your loynes be gird about and your lights burning,

    36And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.

  • Luke 5:34-35
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    34And he said vnto them, Can ye make the children of the wedding chamber to fast, as long as the bridegrome is with them?

    35But the dayes will come, euen when the bridegrome shalbe taken away from them: then shall they fast in those dayes.

  • 1 Thess 5:6-7
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    6Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.

    7For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.

  • Luke 12:45
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    45But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,

  • Matt 24:48-50
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    48But if that euil seruant shal say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,

    49And begin to smite his fellowes, & to eate, and to drinke with the drunken,

    50That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,

  • Matt 25:19
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    19But after a long season, the master of those seruants came, and reckoned with them.

  • Luke 22:45-46
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    45And he rose vp from prayer, and came to his disciples, & found them sleeping for heauinesse.

    46And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.

  • Prov 6:10
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    10Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the hands to sleepe.

  • Matt 24:42-44
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    42Watch therefore: for ye knowe not what houre your master will come.

    43Of this be sure, that if the good man of the house knewe at what watch the thiefe would come, he woulde surely watch, and not suffer his house to be digged through.

    44Therefore be ye also ready: for in the houre that ye thinke not, will the Sonne of man come.

  • Matt 26:45
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    45Then came he to his disciples, and said vnto them, Sleepe henceforth, & take your rest: behold, the houre is at hand, and the Sonne of man is giuen into the hands of sinners.

  • Mark 2:20
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    20But the daies will come, when the bridegrome shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast in those daies.

  • Luke 12:40
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    40Be ye also prepared therefore: for the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

  • Mark 14:37
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    37Then hee came, and founde them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watche one houre?

  • Mark 14:40
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    40And he returned, & founde them a sleepe againe: for their eyes were heauie: neither knewe they what they should answere him.

  • Matt 24:39
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    39And knewe nothing, till the flood came, and tooke them all away, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.

  • 1 Thess 5:2
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    2For ye your selues knowe perfectly, that the day of the Lorde shall come, euen as a thiefe in the night.

  • Matt 26:40
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    40After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? Coulde yee not watch with me one houre?

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shal come on you, as it were a thiefe.

  • Matt 22:8
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    8Then saide hee to his seruants, Truly the wedding is prepared: but they which were bidden, were not worthy.

  • Matt 9:15
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    15And Iesus saide vnto them, Can the children of the marriage chamber mourne as long as the bridegrome is with them? But the daies will come, when the bridegrome shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

  • Matt 22:11
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    11Then the King came in, to see the ghestes, and sawe there a man which had not on a wedding garment.