Matthew 25:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Matt 24:48 : 48 `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,
  • Matt 25:19 : 19 `And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them;
  • Matt 26:40 : 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!
  • Matt 26:43 : 43 and having come, he findeth them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, `Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour! 38 Watch ye and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'
  • Luke 12:45 : 45 `And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'
  • Luke 20:9 : 9 And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already `is' to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer `is' our salvation than when we did believe;
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
  • Heb 10:36-37 : 36 for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise, 37 for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
  • 2 Pet 3:4-9 : 4 and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;' 5 for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God, 6 through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed; 7 and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men. 8 And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord `is' as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; 9 the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 but that which ye have -- hold ye, till I may come;
  • Song 3:1 : 1 On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with' dew, My locks `with' drops of the night.'
  • Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that `are' in the ship into the sea, to make `it' light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep. 6 And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, `What -- to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For yet the vision `is' for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

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    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,

  • Matt 25:1-4
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    1`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

    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.

  • Matt 13:25
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    25and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,

  • Matt 22:2-5
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    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;

  • Mark 13:35-36
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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;

    36lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

  • 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.

  • 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.'

  • 1 Thess 5:6-7
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    6so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

    7for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

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

  • Luke 12:45
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    45`And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

  • Matt 24:48-50
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    48`And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

    49and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

    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,

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

  • Luke 22:45-46
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    45And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,

    46and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'

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    10A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

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

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    45then cometh he unto his disciples, and saith to them, `Sleep on henceforth, and rest! lo, the hour hath come nigh, and the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of sinners.

  • Mark 2:20
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    20but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast -- in those days.

  • 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.'

  • Mark 14:37
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    37And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, `Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour!

  • Mark 14:40
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    40and having returned, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy, and they had not known what they might answer him.

  • Matt 24:39
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    39and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

  • 1 Thess 5:2
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    2for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

  • Matt 26:40
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    40And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

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

  • Matt 9:15
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    15And 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.

  • Matt 22:11
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    11`And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,