Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.

The kingdom

"Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."

Another parable which Jesus told them was this-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

For the Kingdom of Heaven is like an employer who went out in the early morning to hire laborers for his vineyards.

"The Kingdom of Heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son's wedding.

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I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them upon you.

These are the men who never defiled themselves in their intercourse with women; they are as pure as virgins. These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed as the first-fruits of mankind for God and for the Lamb.

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Let your light so shine before the eyes of your fellow men, that, seeing your good actions, they may praise your Father who is in Heaven.

Make yourselves ready, with your lamps alight;

So as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent-- 'faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,' in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,

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And now the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just Judge, will give me on 'That Day'--and not only to me, but to all who have loved his Appearing.

while we are awaiting our Blessed Hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.

But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this 'tent,' to rouse you by awakening memories of the past;

while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens will be dissolved in fire, and the elements melted by heat,

The bridegroom

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then.

"The Kingdom of Heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son's wedding.

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

But Jesus answered them: "Can you make the bridegroom's friends fast while the bridegroom is with them?

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is filled with joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This joy I have felt to the full.

I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, that I might present you to the Christ a pure bride.

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

Let us rejoice and exalt; and we will pay him honour, for the hour for the Marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready.

And I saw the Holy City, Jerusalem, descending new out of Heaven from God, like a bride adorned in readiness for her husband.