Matthew 25:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² And 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 the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Matthew 10:16

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 24:45

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Matthew 25:3

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

Matthew 25:4

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Matthew 25:9

But the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, 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 they might be made manifest how that they all are not of us.

Jude 1:5

Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, how that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.