Matthew 25:2 Cross References - NSB

² »Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

² One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because they were rotten.

²⁴ »Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock. ²⁵ »The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it did not fall. It was built on a solid rock foundation. ²⁶ »Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷ »The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.«

¹⁹ »When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the evil one takes away that which was sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. ²⁰ »Anyone sown among the rocky places hears the word and immediately with joy receives it. ²¹ »There is no root in him. He endures for a while. When he has tribulation or persecution because of the word, he falls away. ²² »He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. ²³ »He that was sown upon the good ground hears the word, and understands it. He bears fruit, producing sometimes a hundredfold, sometimes sixty, and sometimes thirty.«

³⁸ »The field is the world (the society of mankind). The good seed are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one. ³⁹ »The enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ »The weeds are gathered up and burned (destroyed) with fire. It will be this way at the end of the age. ⁴¹ »The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all who stumble others and commit lawlessness. ⁴² »The angels will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ »The righteous will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears let him hear.

⁴⁷ »The kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea. It gathered fish of every kind. ⁴⁸ »They drew it up on the beach when it was full. They gathered the good into containers and threw away the bad.

¹⁰ »They went to the roads and brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike. And the banquet room was filled with guests. ¹¹ »When the king met the guests he found that one of them was not wearing the right kind of clothes for the wedding.

⁴⁵ »Who then is the faithful, thoughtful, and wise servant, whom his lord put in charge of his other servants, to give them their food at the proper time?

¹ Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about how all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. ² They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. ³ They all ate the same spiritual meal. ⁴ They all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them. That Rock was (represented) (symbolic of) Christ! (Exodus 7:6) (Numbers 20:11) ⁵ God was not pleased with most of them. And their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.

⁵ I want to remind you though you once knew this, that Jehovah (God), having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.