Matthew 25:4
Good News Translation
while the wise ones took containers full of oil for their lamps.

New Revised Standard Version
but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.

Contemporary English Version
The ones who were wise took along extra oil for their lamps.

New American Bible
but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps.

oil.

Psalm 45:7 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Zechariah 4:2,3 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof. . . .

John 1:15,16 John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me. . . .

John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

2 Corinthians 1:22 Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, . . .

1 John 2:20,27 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things. . . .

Jude 1:19 These are they who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the Spirit.

Context
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
3But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them. 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps. 5And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:24
Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

Matthew 10:16
Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

Matthew 25:2
And five of them were foolish and five wise.

Matthew 25:3
But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them.

Matthew 25:5
And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.

Matthew 25:3
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