But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
Parallel translations
- KJV But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
- BSB But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”
- NKJV But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
- NASB But the days will come; and when the groom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”
- NLT But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”
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- John 16:4–7But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
- Acts 14:23When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
- Acts 3:21whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
- Luke 17:22He said to the disciples, “The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
- John 16:28I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
- Acts 1:9When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
- Matt 6:17–18But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;
- Acts 13:2–3As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
- Zech 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
- 1 Cor 7:5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
- Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- 2 Cor 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
- Isa 22:12In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
- John 12:8For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
- John 14:3–4If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
- John 16:16–22A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
- Luke 24:17–21He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”
- John 17:11–13I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
- John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
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