Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Bible References
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Matthew 25:19
"After a long lapse of time the master of those servants returned, and had a reckoning with them.
Matthew 24:48
But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, 'My master is a long time in coming,'
Luke 12:45
But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess;
Luke 20:9
Then He proceeded to speak a parable to the people. "There was a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, let it out to vine-dressers, and went abroad for a considerable time.
Hebrews 10:36
For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.
2 Peter 3:4
and, asking, "What has become of His promised Return? For from the time our forefathers fell asleep all things continue as they have been ever since the creation of the world."
Revelation 2:25
Only that which you already possess, cling to until I come.