Matthew 25:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

While the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

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  • Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming,
  • Matt 25:19 : 19 After a long time, the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
  • Matt 26:40 : 40 And he came to the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour?
  • Matt 26:43 : 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  • Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and begins to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunk;
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?
  • Luke 20:9 : 9 Then he began to speak this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to tenant farmers, and went into a far country for a long time.
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he who is coming will come and will not tarry.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 2 Pet 3:4-9 : 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But hold fast what you have until I come.
  • Song 3:1 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
  • Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, perhaps that God will consider us, that we do not perish.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

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  • Matt 25:6-14
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    6And at midnight a cry was made: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him.

    7Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

    8And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.

    9But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.

    10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.

    11Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

    12But he answered and said, Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.

    13Watch therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour when the Son of Man comes.

    14For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.

  • Matt 25:1-4
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    1Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

    2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

    3Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them.

    4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

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    25But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

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    2The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who prepared a wedding for his son,

    3And sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they would not come.

    4Again, he sent out other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and fattened cattle are slaughtered, and everything is ready: come to the wedding.

    5But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his business:

  • Mark 13:35-36
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    35Watch therefore: for you do not know when the master of the house comes, in the evening, or at midnight, or at the rooster crowing, or in the morning:

    36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

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    35Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning;

    36And you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.

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    34And he said to them, Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

    35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

  • 1 Thess 5:6-7
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    6Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober.

    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

  • Luke 12:45
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    45But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and begins to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunk;

  • Matt 24:48-50
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    48But if that evil servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming,

    49and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,

    50the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour that he is not aware of,

  • Matt 25:19
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    19After a long time, the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.

  • Luke 22:45-46
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    45And when he rose from prayer, and came to his disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow,

    46And said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.

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    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • Matt 24:42-44
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    42Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

    43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

    44Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour you do not expect the Son of Man will come.

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    45Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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    20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

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    40Therefore be ready also: for the Son of Man comes at an hour you do not expect.

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    37And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?

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    40And when he returned, he found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy, and they did not know what to answer him.

  • Matt 24:39
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    39and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

  • 1 Thess 5:2
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    2For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

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    40And he came to the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour?

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

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    8Then he said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

  • Matt 9:15
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    15And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

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    11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.