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 slaves came and settled accounts with them.

But if that evil slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is staying away for a long time,'

For [there is] yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay.

But if that slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is taking a long time to return,' and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For {ever since} the fathers fell asleep, all [things] have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation."

Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come.