Matthew 25:5

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Matthew 25:5

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

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“Now after a long time the master of those slaves *came and *settled accounts with them.

But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;

And He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.