Douay Rheims Original ↷
Matthew 25 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Ten Virgins
1 THEN shall the Kingdom of Heaven be like to ten virgins, which taking their lamps went forth to meet the bridegroom and the bride.📜💬📚
2 And five of them were foolish, and five wise.📜💬📚
3 But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them:📜💬📚
4 but the wise did take oil in their vessels with the lamps.📜💬📚
5 And the bridegroom tarrying long, they slumbered all and slept.📜💬📚
6 And at midnight there was a clamour made: Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet him.📜💬📚
7 Then arose all those virgins, and they trimmed their lamps.📜💬📚
8 And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out.📜💬📚
9 The wise answered, saying: Lest peradventure there suffice not for us and you, go rather to them that sell, and buy for your selves.📜💬📚
10 And whiles they went to buy, the bridegroom was come: and they that were ready, entered with him to the marriage, and the gate was shut.📜💬📚
11 But last of all come also the other virgins saying: Lord, Lord, open to us.📜💬📚
12 But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not.📜💬📚
13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.📜💬📚
19 But after much time the lord of those servants cometh, & made account with them.📜💬📚
Sheep and the Goats
31 And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty:📜💬📚
32 and all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from an other, as the pastor separateth the sheep from the goats:📜💬📚
33 and shall set the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at his left.📜💬📚
34 Then shall the King say to them that shall be at his right hand: Come ye blessed of my Father, possess you the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.📜💬📚
35 For I was an hungered, and you gave me to eat: I was a thirst, and you gave me to drink.📜💬📚
36 I was a stranger, and you took me in: naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.📜💬📚
37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee an hungered, and fed thee, a thirst, and gave thee drink?📜💬📚
38 and when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? Or naked, and covered thee?📜💬📚
39 Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee?📜💬📚
40 And the King answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.📜💬📚
41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be at his left hand: Get ye away from me you cursed into fire everlasting, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.📜💬📚
42 For I was an hungered, & you gave me not to eat, I was a thirst, & you gave me not to drink.📜💬📚
43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick, & in prison, and you did not visit me.📜💬📚
44 Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee an hungered, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, & did not minister to thee?📜💬📚
45 Then he shall answer them, saying, Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these lesser, neither did you it to me.📜💬📚
46 And these shall go into punishment everlasting: but the just, into life everlasting.📜💬📚
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