Matthew 25:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

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  • Matt 13:24 : 24 Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
  • Luke 12:35-36 : 35 `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning, 36 and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.
  • Rev 19:7 : 7 may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;
  • Rev 21:2 : 2 and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;
  • Matt 22:2 : 2 `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,
  • Mark 2:19-20 : 19 And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast; 20 but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast -- in those days.
  • Luke 5:34-35 : 34 And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast? 35 but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.'
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For thy Maker `is' thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name, And thy Redeemer `is' the Holy One of Israel, `God of all the earth,' He is called.
  • Dan 2:44 : 44 `And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.
  • Rev 21:9 : 9 And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb -- the wife,'
  • Matt 9:15 : 15 And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.
  • John 3:29 : 29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, 16 the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
  • 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Pet 1:13-15 : 13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding `you', 14 having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me, 15 and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
  • 2 Pet 3:12-13 : 12 waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; 13 and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;
  • Rev 4:5 : 5 and out of the throne proceed do lightnings, and thunders, and voices; and seven lamps of fire are burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God,
  • Rev 14:4 : 4 these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --
  • Acts 20:8 : 8 and there were many lamps in the upper chamber where they were gathered together,
  • 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
  • Eph 5:25-33 : 25 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying, 27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; 28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love; 29 for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly, 30 because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; 31 `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;' 32 this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; 33 but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.
  • Luke 21:34-36 : 34 `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, 35 for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land, 36 watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'
  • Matt 3:2 : 2 and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.
  • Isa 62:4-5 : 4 It is not said of thee any more, `Forsaken!' And of thy land it is not said any more, `Desolate,' For to thee is cried, `My delight `is' in her,' And to thy land, `Married,' For Jehovah hath delighted in thee, And thy land is married. 5 For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.
  • Ps 45:9-9 : 9 Daughters of kings `are' among thy precious ones, A queen hath stood at thy right hand, In pure gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house, 11 And the king doth desire thy beauty, Because he `is' thy lord -- bow thyself to him,
  • Ps 45:14 : 14 In divers colours she is brought to the king, Virgins -- after her -- her companions, Are brought to thee.
  • Song 1:3 : 3 For fragrance `are' thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!
  • Song 5:8 : 8 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I `am' sick with love!
  • Song 5:16-6:1 : 16 His mouth is sweetness -- and all of him desirable, This `is' my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem! 1 Whither hath thy beloved gone, O fair among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned, And we seek him with thee?
  • Song 6:8-9 : 8 Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number. 9 One is my dove, my perfect one, One she `is' of her mother, The choice one she `is' of her that bare her, Daughters saw, and pronounce her happy, Queens and concubines, and they praise her.
  • Matt 24:42-51 : 42 `Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come; 43 and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through; 44 because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come. 45 `Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season? 46 Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so; 47 verily I say to you, that over all his substance he will set him. 48 `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, 49 and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken, 50 the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know, 51 and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.
  • Matt 13:31 : 31 Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field,
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,
  • Matt 13:44-45 : 44 `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field. 45 `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,
  • Matt 13:47 : 47 `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a net that was cast into the sea, and did gather together of every kind,
  • Matt 20:1 : 1 `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

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  • Matt 25:2-16
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    2and five of them were prudent, and five foolish;

    3they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil;

    4and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.

    5`And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping,

    6and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.

    7`Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps,

    8and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

    9and the prudent answered, saying -- Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves.

    10`And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

    11and afterwards come also do the rest of the virgins, saying, Sir, sir, open to us;

    12and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

    13`Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

    14`For -- as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,

    15and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.

    16`And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;

  • Matt 22:1-5
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    1And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying,

    2`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

    3and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

    4`Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things `are' ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;

    5and they, having disregarded `it', went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise;

  • Luke 12:35-36
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    35`Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

    36and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

  • Matt 20:1
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    1`For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

  • Matt 22:8-11
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    8then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy,

    9be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.

    10`And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining.

    11`And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,

  • Matt 18:23-24
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    23`Because of this was the reign of the heavens likened to a man, a king, who did will to take reckoning with his servants,

    24and he having begun to take account, there was brought near to him one debtor of a myriad of talents,

  • Matt 25:19-20
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    19`And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them;

    20and he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, `Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them.

  • Matt 13:45
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    45`Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,

  • Matt 13:24-25
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    24Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,

    25and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,

  • Matt 24:44-45
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    44because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

    45`Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

  • Luke 12:40
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    40and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

  • Luke 5:34-35
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    34And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?

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

  • Matt 25:34
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    34`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

  • Luke 13:25
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    25from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

  • Mark 13:35
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    35watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning;

  • Rev 19:7
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    7may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

  • Luke 19:12
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    12He said therefore, `A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,

  • Matt 24:42
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    42`Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

  • Matt 24:50
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    50the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

  • Luke 14:21
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    21`And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither.

  • Matt 25:30
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    30and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

  • Rev 14:4
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    4these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --

  • Luke 15:8
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    8`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?