but the prudenttookoilin flasksalong with their lamps.
You have lovedrighteousnessand hatedwickedness;ThereforeGod,Your God,has anointedYou With the oilof joyaboveYour fellows.
"Behold,I sendyou out as sheepin the midstof wolves;sobe shrewdas serpentsand innocentas doves.
"Fiveof them were foolish,and fivewere prudent.
"For when the foolishtooktheir lamps,they tooknooilwith them,
"Nowwhile the bridegroomwas delaying,they allgot drowsyand [began] to sleep.
"Thereforeeveryonewhohearsthesewordsof Mineand actson them, may be comparedto a wisemanwhobuilthis houseon the rock.
"For He whomGodhas sentspeaksthe wordsof God;for He givesthe Spiritwithoutmeasure.
However,you are not in the fleshbut in the Spirit,if indeedthe Spiritof Goddwellsin you. But ifanyonedoes not havethe Spiritof Christ,he does not belongto Him.
who alsosealedus and gave[us] the Spiritin our heartsas a pledge.
But you havean anointingfrom the Holy One,and you allknow.
As for you, the anointingwhichyou receivedfrom Him abidesin you, and you havenoneedfor anyoneto teachyou; but as His anointingteachesyou aboutall things,and is true and is not a lie,and justas it has taughtyou, you abidein Him.
Theseare the ones who cause divisions,worldly-minded,devoidof the Spirit.
