Pro 10:5, Mat 25:1-12, Luk 13:25, 19:44, Heb 3:7-15 | ESV | STEP | He who gathers in summer is a prudent son , but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame .

1 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ^cten virgins who took their lamps ^{▼▼Or torches} and went to meet ^ethe bridegroom. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add and the bride} 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were ^gwise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5 As the bridegroom ^hwas delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 6 But ⁱat midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7 Then all those virgins rose and ^jtrimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and ^kthose who were ready went in with him to ^lthe marriage feast, and ^mthe door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ⁿ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ 12 ^oBut he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, ^pI do not know you.’

Luke 13:25

25 ^qWhen once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ^r‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ^s‘I do not know where you come from.’

Luke 19:44

44 ^tand tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And ^uthey will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know ^vthe time of your ^wvisitation.”

Hebrews 3:7-15

A Rest for the People of God

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

^x“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for ^yforty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 ^zAs I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^aathe living God. 13 But ^abexhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^acthe deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, ^adif indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,

^ae“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”