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 bondmen comes and reckons with them.
Matthew 24:48
But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay.
Luke 12:45
But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,
Luke 20:9
And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.
Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.
Revelation 2:25
but what ye have hold fast till I shall come.