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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Can

Matthew 25:1
Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Judges 14:11
And it happened when they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Psalm 45:14
She shall be brought to the king in clothing of needlework; the virgins, her companions after her, shall be brought to You.
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Then my joy is fulfilled.
Revelation 19:9
And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God.
Revelation 21:2
And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband.

And then

Isaiah 22:12
And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
Acts 13:1
And in Antioch some among the existing church were prophets and teachers. (such as Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.
Acts 14:23
And having hand-picked elders for them in every church, and had prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord into whom they believed.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.
2 Corinthians 11:27
I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

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Matthew 22:1
And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables, and said,