The King gives the parable of the ten virgins
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📚“Then✭ the kingdom of heaven will resemble ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 📚✭And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 📚✭The foolish ones took their lamps, but did not take any oil with them. 4 📚But the wise took oil in their containers with their lamps. 5 📚✭While the bridegroom delayed, they all got drowsy and fell asleep.6 📚✭“And at midnight there was a cry: ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming! Go out to meet him.’ 7 📚Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.
8 📚✭“And the foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
9 📚✭“But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, or there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil, and buy for yourselves.’
10 📚✭“And while they were going away to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut. 11 📚✭Afterwards the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord! Open to us.’
12 📚“But he answered and said, ‘Truly I say to you, I don't know you.✭’
13 📚✭“Watch therefore, for you do not know either the day or the hour when the Son of man comes.
The King gives the parable of the talents
14 📚✭“For the kingdom of heaven is like a man planning on a journey to a far country who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. 15 📚And he gave five talents✭ to one, two to another, and one to another, to each one according to his own ability. And immediately he went on his journey.
16 📚✭“Then the one who received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents. 17 📚And in the same way the one who received two, also gained another two. 18 📚But the one who received one went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.
19 📚“After a long time✭ the master of those servants came and settled accounts✭ with them. 20 📚✭And so the one who received five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents to me. Look, besides those I have gained five more talents.’ 21 📚✭“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’
22 📚“Also the one who received two talents came and said, ‘Master, you entrusted two talents to me. Look, besides those I have gained another two talents.’
23 📚✭“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’
24 📚✭“Then the one who received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter. 25 📚And I was afraid✭ and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, you have yours.’
26 📚✭“His master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed and gather where I have not scattered? 27 📚✭Therefore you should have put my money with the bankers, and then when I returned I would have received my own with interest.’
28 📚✭“Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. 29 📚✭For to every one who has will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from him who does not have will be taken away even what he has. 30 📚✭And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
The King speaks of His second coming and the judgment of the nations
31 📚“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 📚and all nations✭ will be gathered in his presence. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats. 33 📚And he will put the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.
34 📚“Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you 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. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to 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 fed you? Or thirsty, and gave you something to drink? 38 When did we see you as a stranger, and took you in? Or naked, and clothed you? 39 Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and came to you?’
40 📚✭“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, anything you did for one of the least of these my brethren, you did for me.’
41 📚“And then he will say to those at the left hand, ‘Depart✭ from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire,✭ prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 📚✭For I was hungry, and you did not give me food. I was thirsty, and you did not give me anything to drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you did not take me in. I was naked, and you did not clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me.’
44 📚✭“Then they too will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not serve you?’
45 📚“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly I say to you, since you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 📚✭“And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal”.