Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Bible References
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Matthew 25:19
"Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
Matthew 24:48
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
Luke 12:45
But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
Luke 20:9
He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
Revelation 2:25
Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.