Verse 5

Nowe while the bridegrome taried long, all slumbred and slept.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that euil seruant shal say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,
  • Matt 25:19 : 19 But after a long season, the master of those seruants came, and reckoned with them.
  • Matt 26:40 : 40 After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? Coulde yee not watch with me one houre?
  • Matt 26:43 : 43 And he came, and founde them a sleepe againe, for their eyes were heauie.
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 Then hee came, and founde them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watche one houre? 38 Watch ye, and pray, that ye enter not into tentation: the spirite in deede is ready, but the flesh is weake.
  • Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?
  • Luke 20:9 : 9 Then began he to speake to ye people this parable, A certaine man planted a vineyarde, and let it forth to husbandmen: and went into a strange countrey, for a great time.
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise fro sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer, then when we beleeued it.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.
  • Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For ye haue neede of patience, that after ye haue done the will of God, ye might receiue the promes. 37 For yet a very litle while, and hee that shall come, will come, and will not tary.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:
  • 2 Pet 3:4-9 : 4 And say, Where is the promes of his coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly know not, that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God. 6 Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water. 7 But the heauens and earth, which are nowe, are kept by the same word in store, and reserued vnto fire against the day of condemnation, and of the destruction of vngodly men. 8 Dearely beloued, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lorde, as a thousande yeeres, and a thousande yeeres as one day. 9 The Lord of that promes is not slacke (as some men count slackenesse) but is pacient toward vs, and would haue no man to perish, but would all men to come to repentance.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But that which ye haue alreadie, hold fast till I come.
  • Song 3:1 : 1 In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.
  • Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 Then the mariners were afraide, and cryed euery man vnto his God, and cast the wares that were in the ship, into the sea to lighten it of the: but Ionah was gone downe into the sides of the ship, and he lay downe, and was fast a sleepe. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and saide vnto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shal speake, and not lie: though it tarie, waite: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.