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"The sensible ones answered, 'No, there won't be enough for us and for you. Go instead to those who sell, and buy oil for yourselves.'
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"When they had gone to buy some, the groom arrived. Then those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
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"Later the rest of the virgins also came and said, 'Master, master, open up for us!'
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"But he replied, 'I assure you: I do not know you!'
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"Therefore be alert, because you don't know either the day or the hour.
The Parable of the Talents
14 "For it is just like a man going on a journey. He called his own slaves and turned over his possessions to them.
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To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one-to each according to his own ability. Then he went on a journey. Immediately
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the man who had received five talents went, put them to work, and earned five more.
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In the same way the man with two earned two more.
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But the man who had received one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.
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"After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.