{"query": "The Wise and Foolish Virgins", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_94d285f8ff97", "title": "The Wise and Foolish Virgins", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ten virgins with lamps await the bridegroom; five carry oil in vessels, five do not; the bridegroom tarries; cry at midnight; the foolish ask to borrow but cannot; the door is shut.\n\nFailure mode: Lam"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_19_20", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:20", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 19:20 — Note, 1. It is well with those that are wise in their latter end, wise for their latter end, for their future state, wise for another world, that are found wise when their latter e"}, {"id": "card_n_19079c10b24d", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_20_wise_and_foolish_builders: \"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will like...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on th"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_romans_13_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Romans 13:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Romans 13:11 — We are here taught a lesson of sobriety and godliness in ourselves. Our main care must be to look to ourselves. 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Those that are wise will increase what they have and live plentifully; their wisdom will teach them to proportion their expenses to their income and to lay up for hereafte"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_james_3_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on James 3:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On James 3:13 — As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the "}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g3471", "title": "G3471 — μωραίνω (mōrainō): be foolish", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "μωραίνω (mōrainō), Strong's G3471: be foolish. μωραίνω (μωρός), [in LXX: Isa.19:11 , Jer.10:14 51:17 (בָּעַר ni.), 2Ki.24:10 , Isa.44:25 R (שָׂכַל ni., pi.)* ;] __1. cl., to be foolish, play the fool."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_zechariah_11_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Zechariah 11:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Zechariah 11:15 — God, having shown the misery of this people in their being justly abandoned by the good Shepherd, here shows their further misery in being shamefully abused by a foolish shepherd."}, {"id": "card_c_m_9e6655ab2a02", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_02_salt_and_light: \"You are the salt of the e shares a section with Sermon on the Mount §som_20_wise_and_foolish_builders: \"Everyone there", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sermon on the Mount §som_02_salt_and_light: \"You are the salt of the e shares a section with Sermon on the Mount §som_20_wise_and_foolish_builders: \"Everyone there."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_11_30", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:30", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 11:30 — This shows what great blessings good men are, especially those that are eminently wise, to the places where they live, and therefore how much to be valued. 1. The righteous are as "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_kings_12_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 12:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Kings 12:1 — Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines, yet we read but of one son he had to bear up his name, and he a fool. It is said (Hos 4:10), They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_21_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 21:11 — This we had before (Pro 19:25), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise: - 1. 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