The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
Parallel translations
- KJV And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
- BSB The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
- NKJV And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
- NASB But the foolish virgins said to the prudent ones, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’
- NLT Then the five foolish ones asked the others, ‘Please give us some of your oil because our lamps are going out.’
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- Prov 13:9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
- Luke 12:35“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
- Heb 4:1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
- Rev 3:9Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
- Matt 13:20–21What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
- Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
- Prov 4:18–19But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
- Job 21:17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
- Luke 8:18Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”
- Luke 16:24He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
- Job 8:13–14So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
- Job 18:5“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Matt 3:9Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
- Acts 8:24Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”
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