Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Bible References
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Matthew 25:19
And after a long time the lord of those slaves came and reckoned accounts with them.
Matthew 24:48
But and if that evil slave shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming,
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come; wait for it.
Luke 12:45
But and if that slave shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the menslaves and maids and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
Luke 20:9
And he began to speak this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country for a long time.
Hebrews 10:36
for patience is necessary, so that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the day in which the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Revelation 2:25
But that which ye have already hold fast until I come.