Matthew 25:4

World English Bible (2000)

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

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  • John 3:34 : 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
  • Rom 8:9 : 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
  • 1 John 2:20 : 20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
  • Jude 1:19 : 19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
  • Ps 45:7 : 7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
  • Zech 4:2-3 : 2 He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it; 3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it."
  • John 1:15-16 : 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
  • 2 Cor 1:22 : 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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