Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Bible References
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Matthew 25:19
And after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Matthew 24:48
But if the bad servant say in his heart, My lord is tarrying long;
Luke 12:45
But if that servant say in his heart, My lord is long in coming; and begin to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and be drunken,
Luke 20:9
And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time.
Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of endurance; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive what is promised.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, Where is his promised coming? for, from the time when the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as then, and as they have continued from the beginning of the creation.
Revelation 2:25
but that which ye have, hold fast till I come.