For although the stupid took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.
Then to the angel of the church at Sardis write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your doings, you have the name of being alive, but you are dead.
see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;
Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
Five of them were stupid and five were sensible.
whereas the sensible took oil in their vessels as well as their lamps.