Matthew 25:1 Cross References - Riverside

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

² and saying, "Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

¹⁶ So let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

¹⁵ He said, "Can the bridal party fast while the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

²⁴ Another illustration he put before them. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

³¹ Another illustration he put before them. He said, "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 seeds are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the Evil One.

⁴⁴ "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man finds and hides again, and for joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. ⁴⁵ "Again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.

⁴⁷ "Again the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the lake that gathered up every sort.

¹ "THE kingdom of heaven is like a man who was a householder, who went out in the early morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

² "The kingdom of heaven is like a man, a king, who made a wedding feast for his son.

⁴² Watch, therefore, for you do not know what day your Master is coming. ⁴³ But this you do know, that if the householder had known in which watch the thief was coming he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore be you also ready, for in an hour that you do not think the Son of Man is coming. ⁴⁵ Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has placed over his household to give them food in due season? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. ⁴⁷ I tell you truly that he will place him over all that he owns. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying,' ⁴⁹ and begins to strike his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting and at an hour when he is unaware, ⁵¹ and will cut him asunder and assign his part with the hypocrites. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Can guests at a wedding fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. ²⁰ But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.

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

³⁵ Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning; ³⁶ and be like men expecting their Master when he returns from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.

³⁴ Take care that your hearts are not dull through overeating and drinking and the cares of life, so that that day may come on you unexpectedly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come on all who dwell on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ Be watchful at every season in prayer that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before 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 at the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

⁸ There were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled.

² I praise you because you remember me in all things and hold firmly the traditions as I passed them on to you.

² For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God, for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, ²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word, ²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless. ²⁸ Thus ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. ³² "This mystery is great, but I am speaking of Christ and the church. ³³ But each one of you must love his own wife as himself, and the wife must reverence her husband.

¹⁵ that you may be blameless and pure, children of God, spotless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding forth the message of life, so that on the day of Christ I can boast that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

⁸ Now the crown of righteousness is awaiting me. The Lord the righteous judge will give it to me on that day, and not only to me but to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus,

¹³ I think it right so long as I am in this tent to arouse you by reminding you, ¹⁴ since I know that the laying aside of my tent will come soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made plain to me. ¹⁵ I will endeavor also on every occasion to make it so that after my going you shall have these things in memory.

¹² you who are looking for and hastening toward the coming of the day of God, when the blazing heavens will be dissolved and the burning elements melted? ¹³ But according to his promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness will dwell.

⁵ From the throne issued lightnings and voices and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. These are the seven Spirits of God.

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were ransomed from among men as first-fruits for God and the Lamb.

⁷ Let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride has prepared herself

² I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

⁹ Then one of the angels that had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came and spoke with me. "Come here," he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the Lamb's wife."