Matthew 25:5

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Matthew 25:5

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

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After a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them.

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

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk;

Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country for a long time.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

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

But that which you have already hold fast till I come.