Matthew 25:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable: Her lamp goeth not out by night.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God.

Ezekiel 33:3

if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

Matthew 25:1

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:2

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

Matthew 25:4

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

2 Timothy 3:5

holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

Hebrews 12:15

looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

Revelation 3:1

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.