Matthew 25:1 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

² "Repent!" he said, "for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"

¹⁶ Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.

¹⁵ Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and they will fast then.

²⁴ Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

³¹ Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

³⁸ The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.

⁴⁴ "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a hoard of money, buried in a field, which a man found, and buried again. And he was overjoyed, and went and sold everything he had and bought the field. ⁴⁵ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dealer in search of fine pearls.

⁴⁷ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was let down into the sea, and inclosed fish of all kinds.

¹ For the Kingdom of Heaven is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

² "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king, who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

⁴² So you must be on the watch, for you do not know on what day your Master is coming. ⁴³ But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him. ⁴⁵ "Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful slave whom his master put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it. ⁴⁷ I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his property. ⁴⁸ But if he is a bad slave and says to himself, 'My master is going to stay a long time,' ⁴⁹ and begins to beat the other slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards, ⁵⁰ that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know ⁵¹ and will cut him in two, and put him with the hypocrites, to weep and gnash his teeth.

¹⁹ Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. ²⁰ But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and when that day comes, they will fast.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵ But other days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, in those days they will fast."

³⁵ You must be ready with your lamps burning, ³⁶ like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

³⁴ But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come on all who are living anywhere on the face of the earth. ³⁶ But you must be vigilant and always pray that you may succeed in escaping all this that is going to happen, and in standing in the presence of the Son of Man."

²⁹ It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

⁸ There were a great many lamps in the upstairs room where we met

² I appreciate your always remembering me, and your standing by the things I passed on to you, just as you received them.

² I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, ²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless. ²⁸ That is the way husbands ought to love their wives—as if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church, ³⁰ for we are parts of his body. ³¹ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one. ³² This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church. ³³ But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

¹⁵ so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world, ¹⁶ offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.

⁸ Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

¹³ while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.

¹³ Yet I think it right, as long as I live in my present tent, to arouse you by a reminder, ¹⁴ for I know that I must soon put it away, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. ¹⁵ I will also take care that after I am gone you will be able at any time to call these things to mind.

¹² while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God, which will cause the heavens to burn up and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to blaze and melt. ¹³ In fulfilment of his promise we expect new heavens and a new earth, where uprightness will prevail.

⁵ Out from the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. In front of the throne seven blazing lamps were burning; they are the seven spirits of God.

⁴ They are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women; they are celibates. It is they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed from among men as the first-fruits for God and the Lamb,

⁷ Let us be glad and triumphant and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

² And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband.

⁹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke to me. "Come," he said, "I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."