Matthew 25:5

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Summary

Matthew 25:5

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

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Revelation 2:25

Bible References

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"After a long time the master of those slaves came, and demanded a reckoning with them.

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

"But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,

Then he began to tell the people this parable. "There was a man who planted a vineyard, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went to another country for a long time.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

I say that I am imposing upon you no fresh burden; only hold fast what you have till I come.