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 cometh, and reckoneth with them.

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming;

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

But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the men-servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken?

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

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may 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 ye have already hold fast till I come.