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 servants came and settled accounts with them.

But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,'

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end--it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

But if that servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed in coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.

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

They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation."

Only hold fast what you have until I come.