Matt 25
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Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
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And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
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For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them:
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but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
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Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
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But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come you forth to meet him.
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Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
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And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.
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But the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go you rather to them that sell, and
buy for yourselves.
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And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and
the door was shut.
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Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
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But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.
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Watch therefore, for you know not the day nor the hour.
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For [it is] as [when] a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods.
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And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on
his journey.
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Straightway he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made other five talents.
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In like manner he also that [received] the two gained other two.
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But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord`s money.
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Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes a reckoning with them.
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And he who received the five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, you delivered to me five talents:
behold, I have gained other five talents.
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His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over
many things; enter you into the joy of your lord.
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And he also that [received] the two talents came and said, Lord, you delivered to me two talents: behold, I have gained other
two talents.
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His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over
many things; enter you into the joy of your lord.
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And he also that had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did
not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter;
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and I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth: behold, you have your own.
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But his lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather
where I did not scatter;
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you ought therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest.
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Take you away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him whom has the ten talents.
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For to every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him whom has not, even that which he has shall
be taken away.
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And cast you out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
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But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory:
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and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the
sheep from the goats;
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and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
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Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world:
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for I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
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naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.
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Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, and fed you? or athirst, and gave you drink?
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And when saw we you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and clothed you?
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And when saw we you sick, or in prison, and came to you?
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And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brethren, [even]
these least, you did it to me.
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Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the
devil and his angels:
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for I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
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I was a stranger, and you took me not in; naked, and you clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.
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Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison,
and did not minister to you?
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Then shall he answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of these least, you did it not to
me.
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And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.