Matthew 25:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Ps 50:3-6 : 3 Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous. 4 He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people. 5 Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice. 6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself `is' judge. Selah.
  • Ps 96:13 : 13 Before Jehovah, for He hath come, For He hath come to judge the earth. He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the peoples in His faithfulness!
  • Ps 98:9 : 9 Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!
  • Isa 25:9 : 9 And `one' hath said in that day, `Lo, this `is' our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This `is' Jehovah, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.'
  • Amos 4:12 : 12 Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
  • Mal 3:1-2 : 1 Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts. 2 And who is bearing the day of his coming? And who is standing in his appearing? For he `is' as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller.
  • Matt 24:31 : 31 and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.
  • Matt 24:44 : 44 because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.
  • Matt 25:1 : 1 `Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;
  • Matt 25:31 : 31 `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;
  • Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is; 34 as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch; 35 watch 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; 36 lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping; 37 and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
  • Luke 12:38-40 : 38 and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find `it' so, happy are those servants. 39 `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through; 40 and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for `him', and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
  • John 5:28-29 : 28 `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, 29 and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,
  • 1 Thess 5:1-3 : 1 And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you, 2 for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come, 3 for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
  • 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power, 8 in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ; 9 who shall suffer justice -- destruction age-during -- from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength, 10 when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
  • Jude 1:14-15 : 14 And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam -- Enoch -- saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads, 15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 `lo, I do come as a thief; happy `is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --
  • Rev 19:7-9 : 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; 8 and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.' 9 And he saith to me, `Write: Happy `are' they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These `are' the true words of God;'

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  • Matt 25:1-5
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    86%

    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.

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

  • Matt 25:7-13
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    84%

    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.

  • Luke 12:35-38
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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.

    37`Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

    38and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find `it' so, happy are those servants.

  • 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;

  • Matt 24:42-44
    3 verses
    75%

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

    43and 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;

    44because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

  • 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.'

  • Matt 24:50
    73%

    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 22:2-4
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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;

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

  • Matt 22:8-13
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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,

    12and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.

    13`Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

  • 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.'

  • Luke 12:45-46
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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;

    46the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for `him', and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

  • Luke 13:25
    70%

    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,

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

  • Matt 20:6
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    6And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

  • Rev 16:15
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    15`lo, I do come as a thief; happy `is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --

  • Luke 14:17
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    17and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.

  • Mark 13:33
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    33Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;

  • Joel 2:16
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    16Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, Assemble the aged, Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, Go out let a bridegroom from his inner chamber, And a bride out of her closet.

  • Matt 24:26
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    26`If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe;

  • 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;

  • Matt 26:46
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    46Rise, let us go; lo, he hath come nigh who is delivering me up.'

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

  • 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.

  • Matt 24:46
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    46Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;