Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

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Bible References

Can

Matthew 25:1
Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Judges 14:11
And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Psalm 45:14
She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:
John 3:29
He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.
Revelation 19:9
And he says to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true words of God.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And then

Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;
Acts 13:1
Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 14:23
And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

General references

Matthew 22:1
And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying,