6. Then in the middle of the night someone shouted, “Here's the groom! Come to meet him!”
7. When the girls got up and started getting their lamps ready,
8. the foolish ones said to the others, “Let us have some of your oil! Our lamps are going out.”
9. The girls who were wise answered, “There's not enough oil for all of us! Go and buy some for yourselves.”
10. While the foolish girls were on their way to get some oil, the groom arrived. The girls who were ready went into the wedding, and the doors were closed.
11. Later the other girls returned and shouted, “Sir, sir! Open the door for us!”
12. But the groom replied, “I don't even know you!”
13. So, my disciples, always be ready! You don't know the day or the time when all this will happen.