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 comes, and makes a reckoning with them.
Matthew 24:48
But, if that evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying,'
Luke 12:45
But, if that servant should say in his heart, My lord is delaying to come, and shall begin to beat the manservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to 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 patience, that, after having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? for, from the day the fathers fell asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation."
Revelation 2:25
nevertheless, that which ye have, hold fast till I come.