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 likened unto ten virgins, who taking their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.
John 3:29
The one having the bride is the Bridegroom: but the friend of the Bridegroom is the one standing and hearing him, rejoiceth with joy on account of the Bridegroom: This, my joy has been made complete.
Revelation 19:9
And he says to me, Write, Blessed are they who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And He says to me, These are the true words of God.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride is adorned for her husband.
And then
Acts 13:1
And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas, and Symeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manahem, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 14:23
And electing elders for them in every church, praying with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.
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Matthew 22:1
And Jesus responding, again spoke to them in parables, saying,