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 lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them.

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth;

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

And he began to speak unto the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country for a long time.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Nevertheless that which ye have, hold fast till I come.