Matthew 25:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 12:35 : 35 Let your loynes be gird about and your lights burning,
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 Then he cried, and saide, Father Abraham, haue mercie on mee, and sende Lazarus that hee may dippe the tip of his finger in water, & coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.
  • Acts 8:24 : 24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye haue spoken, come vpon me.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let vs feare therefore, least at any time by forsaking the promes of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to be depriued.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which call themselues Iewes, and are not, but doe lye: beholde, I say, I will make them, that they shall come and worship before thy feete, and shall knowe that I haue loued thee.
  • Job 8:13-14 : 13 So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish. 14 His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
  • Job 21:17 : 17 How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
  • Prov 4:18-19 : 18 But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day. 19 The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous reioyceth: but the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 He that curseth his father or his mother, his light shalbe put out in obscure darkenes.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 And thinke not to say with your selues, We haue Abraham to our father: for I say vnto you, that God is able euen of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham.
  • Matt 13:20-21 : 20 And hee that receiued seede in the stonie grounde, is he which heareth the woorde, and incontinently with ioy receiueth it, 21 Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.
  • Luke 8:18 : 18 Take heede therefore how ye heare: for whosoeuer hath, to him shall be giuen: and whosoeuer hath not, from him shalbe taken euen that which it seemeth that he hath.

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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.

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    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.

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  • Prov 15:7
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    8Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?

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  • Prov 23:9
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    9Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.

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    24Wisdome is in the face of him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the corners of the world.

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