Matthew 25:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Five of them were foolish (thoughtless, without forethought) and five were wise (sensible, intelligent, and prudent).

American Standard Version (1901)

² And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Common English Bible

² Now five of them were wise, and the other five were foolish.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² But five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And five of them were foolish, and five wise.

Matthew 25:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Matthew 24:45

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

Matthew 25:3

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

Matthew 25:4

but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.

Matthew 25:9

But the wise replied, ‘Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us.

Jude 1:5

Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.