Matthew 25:5

While the bridegroom delayed, all ten slumbered and slept. The delay tests everyone, wise and foolish alike.

Cross-references · 19

• Hab 2:3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
• 1 Th 5:6–8Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
• 2 Pet 3:4–9And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
• Matt 24:48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
• Luke 20:9Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
• Luke 12:45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
• Mark 14:37–38And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
• Matt 25:19After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
• Heb 10:36–37For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Eph 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Jonah 1:5–6Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
• Matt 26:43And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
• Matt 26:40And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
• Song 5:2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
• Song 3:1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Rom 13:11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Luke 18:8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
• Rev 2:25But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

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