Matthew 22:8

James Moffatt - New Testament

Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it.

Cross References

Revelation 3:4

Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.

2 Thessalonians 1:5

They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it —

Acts 13:46

So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of Life, the right to enter the gates of the City!

Luke 21:36

From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

Luke 20:35

but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

Matthew 9:15

Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

Matthew 22:9

So go to the byeways and invite anyone you meet to the marriage-banquet.'