Matthew 25:5

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Matthew 25:5

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

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And, after a long time, cometh the lord of those servants, and reckoneth with them.

But, if that wicked servant should say in his heart - My master, delayeth,

For yet is the vision for an appointed time, still, it presseth towards an end, and will not deceive, - if it tarry, wait thou for it, for it, surely cometh, - will not be too late.

But, if that servant should say in his heart - My lord delayeth to come! and should begin to be striking the youths and the maidens, - to be eating also, and drinking, and making himself drunk,

And he began, unto the people, to be speaking this parable: - A man, planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went from home for a long time.

For, of endurance, ye have need, in order that, the will of God having done, Ye may bear away, the promise.

and saying - Where is the promise of his presence? For, since the fathers fell asleep, all things, thus remain, from the beginning of creation.

nevertheless, what ye have, hold fast, till I shall have come.