She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.
Matthew 25:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For when the foolish took their lamps, they did not take any [extra] oil with them; American Standard Version (1901) For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them: Common English Bible The foolish ones took their lamps but didn’t bring oil for them. Catholic Public Domain Version For the five foolish, having brought their lamps, did not take oil with them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them: |
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.
and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people;
“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled;
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “ ‘I know your works; you have the name of being alive, and you are dead.