Matthew 25:1 Cross References - MNT

¹ "Then will the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

² "Repent," said he, "for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

¹⁶ "So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

¹⁵ "Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

²⁴ He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

³¹ He set forth to them another parable, saying. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard-seed which a man took and planted in his field.

³⁸ "the field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; the weeds, the sons of the Evil One.

⁴⁴ "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in the ground, which a man finds but buries again, and then in his joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that land. ⁴⁵ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of beautiful pearls.

⁴⁷ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

¹ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out at dawn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

² "The kingdom of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who made a wedding-feast for his son.

⁴² Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have been on his guard, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming. ⁴⁵ "Who, then, is the faithful and prudent slave, to whom his master has entrusted his household, to give them their food in due season? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that slave whom his Master, when he comes, shall find so doing. ⁴⁷ In solemn truth I tell you that he will set him over all his property. ⁴⁸ But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' ⁴⁹ and if he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and to eat or drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour which he does not know, the Master of that servant will arrive ⁵¹ and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

¹⁹ "Can friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them?" asked Jesus. "As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. ²⁰ But the days will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then, on that day, they will fast.

³⁴ "Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them? ³⁵ "But there is coming a day when the Bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then at that time they will fast."

³⁵ "Let your loins be girded about and your lamps burning; ³⁶ "and be yourselves like men who are looking for the Lord, on his return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open the door for him.

³⁴ "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap. ³⁵ "For it will come upon all the dwellers on the face of the earth. ³⁶ "So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.

⁸ Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled,

² Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.

² I have a divine jealousy on your behalf; for I betrothed you to one only husband, even to Christ, that I might present you to him, a chaste virgin.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, ²⁷ so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless. ²⁸ That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church; ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. ³² There is a deep mystery here—I am speaking of Christ and his church. ³³ But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

¹⁵ that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world, ¹⁶ holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹³ While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

¹³ So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you, ¹⁴ since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me. ¹⁵ So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.

¹² while you look for and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat. ¹³ But according to his promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness makes her dwelling.

⁵ From the throne issued lightning and voices and thunders. Seven blazing lamps were burning before the throne; these are the seven Spirits of God.

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are celibates. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among men to be the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.

⁷ Let us rejoice and triumph and give him the glory; For the marriage of the Lamb is come, And his bride has made herself ready,

² And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

⁹ And there came to me one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the last plagues, and he spoke to me, saying. "Come hither! I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife."