The ten young women woke up and trimmed their lamps.
“Be ready for whatever comes, dressed for action and with your lamps lit,
And so, my friends, as you wait for that Day, do your best to be pure and faultless in God's sight and to be at peace with him.
So wake up, and strengthen what you still have before it dies completely. For I find that what you have done is not yet perfect in the sight of my God.
“At that time the Kingdom of heaven will be like this. Once there were ten young women who took their oil lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
“It was already midnight when the cry rang out, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come and meet him!’
Then the foolish ones said to the wise ones, ‘Let us have some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’