New Revised Standard Version
be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks.

Contemporary English Version
just like those servants who wait up for their master to return from a wedding feast. As soon as he comes and knocks, they open the door for him.

New American Bible
and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

men.

Luke 2:25-30 And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him. . . .

Genesis 49:18 I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

Isaiah 64:4 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.

Lamentations 3:25,26 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. . . .

Matthew 24:42-44 Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come. . . .

Mark 13:34-37 Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch. . . .

James 5:7,8 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. . . .

2 Peter 1:13-15 But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. . . .

Jude 1:20,21 But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, . . .

return.

Matthew 22:1 And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:

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Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

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when.

Songs 5:5,6 I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh. . . .

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him: and he with me.