Matthew 25:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

Matthew 25:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 12:35
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
Revelation 3:19-20
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. …
2 Peter 3:14
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Revelation 2:4-5
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. …
Revelation 3:2
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

Topics

Body Day Dead (people)Graces Ignorance Immortality Jesus, the Christ Judgment

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Here, I. That in general which is to be illustrated is, the kingdom of heaven, the state of things under the gospel, the external kingdom of Christ, and the administration and success of it. Some of Christ’s parables had shown us what it is like now in the present reception of it, as Matt. 13:1-52 This tells us what it shall be like, when the mystery of God shall be finished, and that kingdom deli…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps--the foolish virgins as well as the wise. How very long do both parties seem the same--almost to the moment of decision! Looking at the mere form of the parable, it is evident that the folly of “the foolish” consisted not in having no oil at all; for they must have had oil enough in their lamps to keep them burning up to this moment: their f…