Cross references

Matthew 25:1

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:1 BSB

Matthew 25:1 has 39 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 37 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 12:35–36 (69 votes) and Matthew 24:42–51 (32 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from Genesis 29 to Revelation 21.

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Which verses does Matthew 25:1 point to?

The 20 strongest of 39, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning. Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

  2. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. …

  3. Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

  4. so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

  5. John 3:2919 votes

    The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

  6. Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

  7. Isaiah 54:518 votes

    For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.

  8. Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

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

  10. Matthew 22:216 votes

    “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

  11. Titus 2:1316 votes
  12. Matthew 3:213 votes
  13. From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.

  14. Daniel 2:4412 votes
  15. Matthew 20:111 votes

Which verses point to Matthew 25:1?

The 10 strongest of 27.