¹⁰ “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet.^(A) And the door was shut.

² The entrance was ten cubits^[a] wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits^[b] wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.^[c](A)

Ministers of the New Covenant

¹² Now when I went to Troas^(A) to preach the gospel of Christ^(B) and found that the Lord had opened a door^(C) for me,

The Throne in Heaven

4 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open^(A) in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet^(B) said, “Come up here,^(C) and I will show you what must take place after this.”^(D)

¹⁴ and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.^(A)

³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,^(A)

³⁵ Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah made an alliance^(A) with Ahaziah king of Israel, whose ways were wicked.^(B)

¹⁵ Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer.^(A)