Matthew 25:1 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

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

² "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before the eyes of your fellow men, that, seeing your good actions, they may praise your Father who is in Heaven.

¹⁵ Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then.

²⁴ Another parable which Jesus told them was this-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

³¹ Another parable which he told 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. By the good seed is meant the People of the Kingdom. The tares are the wicked,

⁴⁴ The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid again, and then, in his delight, went and sold everything that he had, and bought that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant in search of choice pearls.

⁴⁷ Or again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a net which was cast into the sea, and caught fish of all kinds.

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

² "The Kingdom of Heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son's wedding.

⁴² Therefore watch; for you cannot be sure on what day your Master is coming. ⁴³ But this you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore, do you also prepare, since it is just when you are least expecting him that the Son of Man will come. ⁴⁵ Who, then is that trustworthy, careful servant, who has been placed by his master over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ Happy will that servant be whom his master, when he comes home, shall find doing this. ⁴⁷ I tell you that his master will put him in charge of the whole of his property. ⁴⁸ But, should he be a bad servant, and say to himself 'My master is a long time in coming,' ⁴⁹ And begin to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with drunkards, ⁵⁰ That servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour of which he is unaware, ⁵¹ And will flog him severely, and assign him his place among the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

¹⁹ Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. ²⁰ But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then--when that day comes.

³⁴ But Jesus answered them: "Can you make the bridegroom's friends fast while the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵ But the days will come--a time when the bridegroom will be parted from them; and they will fast then, when those days come."

³⁵ Make yourselves ready, with your lamps alight; ³⁶ And be like men who are waiting for their Master's return from his wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door for him at once.

³⁴ Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare. ³⁵ For come it will upon all who are living upon the face of the whole earth. ³⁶ Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

²⁹ It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is filled with joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This joy I have felt to the full.

⁸ There were a good many lamps in the upstairs room, where we had met;

² I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them upon you.

² I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, that I might present you to the Christ a pure bride.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her, ²⁶ To make her holy, after purifying her by the Washing with the Water, according to his promise; ²⁷ So that he might himself bring the Church, in all her beauty, into his own presence, with no spot or wrinkle or blemish of any kind, but that she might be holy and faultless. ²⁸ That is how 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 yet hated his own body. But every one feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the Church; ³⁰ For we are members of his Body. ³¹ 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife shall become one.' ³² In this there is a profound truth--I am speaking of Christ and his Church. ³³ However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

¹⁵ So as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent-- 'faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,' in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world, ¹⁶ Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.

⁸ And now the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just Judge, will give me on 'That Day'--and not only to me, but to all who have loved his Appearing.

¹³ while we are awaiting our Blessed Hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.

¹³ But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this 'tent,' to rouse you by awakening memories of the past; ¹⁴ for I know that the time for this 'tent' of mine to be put away is soon coming, as our Lord Jesus Christ himself assured me. ¹⁵ So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind.

¹² while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens will be dissolved in fire, and the elements melted by heat, ¹³ but we look for 'new heavens and a new earth,' where righteousness shall have its home, in fulfillment of the promise of God.

⁵ Out from the throne 'come flashes of lightning, cries, and peals of thunder'! There are seven torches burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God;

⁴ These are the men who never defiled themselves in their intercourse with women; they are as pure as virgins. These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed as the first-fruits of mankind for God and for the Lamb.

⁷ Let us rejoice and exalt; and we will pay him honour, for the hour for the Marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready.

² And I saw the Holy City, Jerusalem, descending new out of Heaven from God, like a bride adorned in readiness for her husband.

⁹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, and were laden with the seven last Curses, came and spoke to me. 'Come here,' he said, 'and I will show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.'