Matthew 25:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For when the foolish took their lamps, they did not take any [extra] oil with them;

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them:

Common English Bible

³ The foolish ones took their lamps but didn’t bring oil for them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For the five foolish, having brought their lamps, did not take oil with them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them:

Matthew 25:3 Cross References

Proverbs 31:18

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they want God on their side.

Ezekiel 33:3

and if the sentinel sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,

Matthew 25:1

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten young women took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Matthew 25:4

but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.

2 Timothy 3:5

holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.

Revelation 3:1

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works; you have a name of being alive, but you are dead.