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 the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
• 1 Th 5:6–8so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
• 2 Pet 3:4–9and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
• Matt 24:48But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
• Luke 20:9He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
• Luke 12:45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
• Mark 14:37–38He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
• Matt 25:19“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
• Heb 10:36–37For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Jonah 1:5–6Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
• Matt 26:43He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
• Matt 26:40He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?
• Song 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Song 3:1By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
• Rom 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Luke 18:8I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
• Rev 2:25Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

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