What Does the Bible Say About Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning?

Matthew 25:1-13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Luke 12:35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,

Matthew 25:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.

Matthew 25:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

Matthew 25:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.

Matthew 24:42-51 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ...

Zechariah 4:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.

Daniel 10:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

1 Chronicles 28:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The weight of the golden lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service,

Judges 7:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.

Luke 12:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.

Matthew 25:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 Kings 7:49 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

Leviticus 24:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.

Exodus 39:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

Exodus 37:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he made its seven lamps and its tongs and its trays of pure gold.

Exodus 30:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it,

Exodus 25:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Luke 12:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

Luke 12:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.

Luke 12:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! ...

Matthew 25:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

Matthew 25:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

Ezekiel 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches moving to and fro among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

Proverbs 31:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Psalm 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

Psalm 18:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.

Job 41:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

Judges 7:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

Numbers 8:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Aaron did so: he set up its lamps in front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.”

Numbers 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied.

Leviticus 24:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.

Exodus 40:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

Exodus 35:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

Exodus 35:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

Exodus 25:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

49 Bible Verses about Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning

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