Verse 5

When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

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  • Matt 24:48 : 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,'
  • Matt 25:19 : 19 After a long time, the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.
  • Matt 26:40 : 40 Then He returned to His disciples and found them sleeping. "Couldn't you men keep watch with Me for one hour?" He asked Peter.
  • Matt 26:43 : 43 When He came back, He again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy.
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Couldn't you keep watch for one hour? 38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you, he will give them justice quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?
  • Luke 20:9 : 9 Then he began to tell the people this parable: 'A man planted a vineyard, leased it to some farmers, and went away for a long time.
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that the hour has already come for you to wake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 So then, let us not sleep like the rest, but let us be alert and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • Heb 10:36-37 : 36 You need endurance so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. 37 For yet in a very little while, the One who is coming will come and will not delay.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  • 2 Pet 3:4-9 : 4 and they will say, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, everything continues just as it has from the beginning of creation.' 5 For they deliberately ignore this fact: that the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God. 6 Through these, the world of that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7 But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of ungodly people. 8 But do not let this one thing escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But hold fast to what you have until I come.
  • Song 3:1 : 1 On my bed at night, I sought the one my soul loves; I sought him, but I did not find him.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. I heard the sound of my beloved knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is drenched with dew and my hair with the dampness of the night."
  • Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down to the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. 6 The captain came to him and said, "What are you doing, sound asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps your god will consider us, so that we will not perish."
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it may delay, wait for it, for it will surely come and will not be late.