“Then all the girls woke up. They made their lamps ready.
“Be ready! Be fully dressed and have your lights shining.
Dear friends, we are waiting for this to happen. So try as hard as you can to be without sin and without fault. Try to be at peace with God.
Wake up! Make yourselves stronger before what little strength you have left is completely gone. I find that what you do is not good enough for my God.
“At that time God’s kingdom will be like ten girls who went to wait for the bridegroom. They took their lamps with them.
“At midnight someone announced, ‘The bridegroom is coming! Come and meet him!’
But the foolish girls said to the wise girls, ‘Give us some of your oil. The oil in our lamps is all gone.’