Matthew 25:6

World English Bible (2000)

But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!'

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  • Ps 50:3-6 : 3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him. 4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people: 5 "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." 6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
  • Ps 96:13 : 13 before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
  • Ps 98:9 : 9 Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
  • Isa 25:9 : 9 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"
  • Amos 4:12 : 12 "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
  • Mal 3:1-2 : 1 "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies. 2 "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;
  • Matt 24:31 : 31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
  • Matt 24:44 : 44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
  • Matt 25:1 : 1 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
  • Matt 25:31 : 31 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
  • Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is. 34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. 35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; 36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. 37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • Luke 12:38-40 : 38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
  • John 5:28-29 : 28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, 29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
  • 1 Thess 5:1-3 : 1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
  • Jude 1:14-15 : 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
  • Rev 19:7-9 : 7 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready." 8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 9 He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."

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    1 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

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

    3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

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

    5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

  • Matt 25:7-13
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    7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

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

    9 But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'

    10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

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

    12 But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.'

    13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

  • Luke 12:35-38
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    35 "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

    36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

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    38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

  • Mark 13:35-36
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    35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

    36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

  • Matt 24:42-44
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    42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

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

    44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

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    40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

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    50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,

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    3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

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    12 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.

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    15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."

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    17 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'

  • Mark 13:33
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    33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

  • Joel 2:16
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    16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.

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    26 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' don't believe it.

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    7 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready."

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    46 Arise, let's be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."

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    48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'

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

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    46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.