1 “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ 12 But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ 13 Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. 14 “For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. 17 In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two. 18 But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money. 19 “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them. 20 He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’ 21 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ 22 “He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.’ 23 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ 24 “He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter. 25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’ 26 “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. 27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. 28 Take away therefore the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away. 30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 31 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. 36 I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink? 38 When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ 40 “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’ 44 “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’ 45 “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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- 1 Lucas 12:35–36; Mateo 24:42–51; Apocalipsis 19:7; Filipenses 2:15–16; Juan 3:29
- 2 Jeremías 24:2; 1 Corintios 10:1–5; Mateo 13:47–48; Mateo 13:19–23; 1 Juan 2:19
- 3 2 Timoteo 3:5; Apocalipsis 3:15–16; Isaías 48:1–2; Isaías 58:2; Apocalipsis 3:1
- 4 Romanos 8:9; 1 Juan 2:20; 1 Juan 2:27; Juan 3:34; Salmo 45:7
- 5 Habacuc 2:3; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:6–8; 2 Pedro 3:4–9; Mateo 24:48; Lucas 20:9
- 6 2 Pedro 3:10; Juan 5:28–29; Mateo 24:31; Mateo 25:1; Mateo 24:44
- 7 Lucas 12:35; 2 Pedro 3:14; Apocalipsis 3:19–20; Apocalipsis 2:4–5; Apocalipsis 3:2
- 8 Proverbios 13:9; Lucas 12:35; Hebreos 4:1; Mateo 13:20–21; Apocalipsis 3:9
- 9 Salmo 49:7–9; Apocalipsis 3:17–18; Isaías 55:6–7; Isaías 55:1–3; Ezequiel 14:20
- 10 Lucas 13:25; Mateo 24:44; 1 Pedro 1:13; Lucas 12:36–37; Génesis 7:16
- 11 Mateo 7:21–23; Hebreos 12:16–17
- 12 1 Corintios 8:3; 2 Timoteo 2:19; Juan 10:27; Lucas 13:26–30; Salmo 5:5
- 13 Mateo 24:42–44; Apocalipsis 16:15; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:6; Lucas 21:36; 1 Corintios 16:13
- 14 Marcos 13:34; 1 Pedro 4:9–11; Romanos 12:6–8; Lucas 19:12–27; Mateo 25:14–30
- 15 Mateo 18:24; Lucas 19:13–14; Lucas 12:48
- 16 Filemón 6–7; 3 Juan 5–8; 1 Timoteo 6:17–18; 2 Timoteo 2:6; Hechos 13:36
- 17 Proverbios 3:9–10; Efesios 5:16; Eclesiastés 11:1–6; Colosenses 4:17; 1 Pedro 4:10
- 18 2 Pedro 1:8; Proverbios 26:13–16; Malaquías 1:10; Hebreos 6:12; Hageo 1:2–4
- 19 1 Corintios 3:12–15; 2 Corintios 5:10; Romanos 14:7–12; Mateo 18:23–24; Lucas 16:1–2
- 20 Hechos 20:24; 1 Corintios 15:10; 2 Timoteo 4:1–8; Lucas 19:16–17; Colosenses 1:29
- 21 Mateo 25:23; Lucas 16:10; Juan 12:26; 2 Timoteo 2:12; Apocalipsis 3:21
- 22 2 Corintios 8:12; Romanos 12:6–8; 2 Corintios 8:7–8; Lucas 19:18–19; 2 Corintios 8:1–3
- 23 Mateo 25:21; Marcos 14:8–9; Marcos 12:41–44
- 24 Lucas 19:20–22; Lucas 15:29; Malaquías 3:14–15; Ezequiel 18:25–29; Jeremías 2:31
- 25 2 Timoteo 1:6–7; Romanos 8:15; Proverbios 26:13; Apocalipsis 21:8; Isaías 57:11
- 26 Mateo 18:32; Job 15:5–6
- 27 Lucas 19:22–23; Judas 15; Deuteronomio 23:19–20; Romanos 3:19
- 28 Lucas 19:24; Lucas 10:42
- 29 Lucas 8:18; Mateo 13:12; Marcos 4:25; Lucas 19:25–26; Juan 15:2
- 30 Mateo 8:12; Mateo 13:50; Apocalipsis 3:15–16; Mateo 22:13; Hebreos 6:7–8
- 31 Apocalipsis 1:7; 2 Tesalonicenses 1:7–8; Mateo 19:28; Judas 14; Marcos 8:38
- 32 Malaquías 3:18; Mateo 13:49; 2 Corintios 5:10; Salmo 98:9; Ezequiel 34:17–22
- 33 Salmo 100:3; Salmo 45:9; Juan 10:26–28; Juan 21:15–17; Salmo 110:1
- 34 1 Pedro 1:19–20; Santiago 2:5; Apocalipsis 21:7; Apocalipsis 13:8; 1 Pedro 1:3–5
- 35 1 Juan 3:16–19; Santiago 2:15–16; Deuteronomio 15:7–11; Ezequiel 18:7; Ezequiel 18:16
- 36 Santiago 1:27; Santiago 5:14–15; Hebreos 13:3; 2 Timoteo 1:16–18; Santiago 2:14–16
- 37 Mateo 6:3; 1 Pedro 5:5–6; 1 Crónicas 29:14; Isaías 64:6; 1 Corintios 15:10
- 40 Proverbios 19:17; Proverbios 14:31; Mateo 10:42; Marcos 9:41; 1 Pedro 1:22
- 41 2 Pedro 2:4; Judas 6–7; Mateo 13:42; 2 Tesalonicenses 1:9; Mateo 7:23
- 42 Santiago 2:15–24; 1 Corintios 16:22; 2 Tesalonicenses 1:8; Juan 5:23; Mateo 12:30
- 44 Lucas 10:29; Mateo 7:22; Mateo 25:24–27; Malaquías 3:13; Malaquías 1:6
- 45 Proverbios 21:13; Proverbios 17:5; Mateo 25:40; Proverbios 14:31; Hechos 9:5
- 46 Daniel 12:2; Juan 5:29; Juan 3:36; Apocalipsis 21:8; Apocalipsis 20:15
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Ye who were present yesterday remember my promise; which with the Lord's assistance is to be made good to-day, not to you only, but to the many others also who have come together. It is no easy question, who the ten virgins are, of whom five are wise, and five foolish.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
"Then shall the kingdom of Heaven," He saith, "be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. But five of them were wise, and the other five foolish, which took not," He saith, "oil." "Then, while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And besides; "the eternal fire which the Father has prepared for the devil and his angels," -- they ought to show of which of those Æons that are above it is the image; for it, too, is reckoned part of the creation.
For the truth in the gospel promises to the saints and the faithful that they will be equal to the angels of God; and it is also promised them that they will "go away into life eternal." But if we are certain that we shall never lapse from eternal felicity, while they are not certain, then we shall not be …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For it will be no longer, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," and thou "tillest the ground," and those former words, that will be said to us; but what is far more grievous than these, the "outer darkness," the bonds that may not be burst, the venomous worm, the "gnashing of teeth;" and this with great reason.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)