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 the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their own lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom;
John 3:29
He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice; this my joy, therefore, is fully attained.
Revelation 19:9
And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who are called to the wedding supper of the Lamb. And he told me, These are the true words of God.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And then
Acts 13:1
And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 14:23
And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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Matthew 22:1
AND Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables saying,