Virgins

Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

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

Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.

Later the other virgins arrived and said, ‘Lord, lord, open the door for us!’

Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.