Matthew 25:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 12:35 : 35 "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
  • Acts 8:24 : 24 Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me."
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
  • Job 8:13-14 : 13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, 14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
  • Job 21:17 : 17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
  • Prov 4:18-19 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Matt 13:20-21 : 20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
  • Luke 8:18 : 18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."

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