KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 25:5
One verse, with its study helps gathered in one place.
Matthew 25:5
5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
5While the bridegrome taried, they all slumbred and slept.
ENSURE CONTEXTUALIZATION
Add surrounding context
Extend this passage one adjacent verse at a time.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VERSE?
Ask a Local Pastor
Find a nearby pastor committed to holding fast the faithful word, then use the public contact information to begin a real conversation. Nothing is sent or stored for you.
DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 25:5
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
bridegroom
A wos man who attends on a bride at her wedding.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To stay, remain, wait, or delay.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To sleep lightly; to doze.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Rested in sleep; or by figure lay in death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE
Cross References
Choose how far to extend the reference list.
From verse 5
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study9Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study37And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
38Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study19After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study40And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study43And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study1BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study2¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study25But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
Still have questions? Ask a Local Pastor.
See public contact information for nearby churches. You decide whether to call, email, or visit.