Matthew 25:6

New American Bible - revised edition

At midnight, there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

Cross References

Psalm 96:13

before the Lord who comes, who comes to govern the earth, To govern the world with justice and the peoples with faithfulness.

Psalm 98:9

Before the Lord who comes, who comes to govern the earth, To govern the world with justice and the peoples with fairness.

Isaiah 25:9

On that day it will be said: “Indeed, this is our God; we looked to him, and he saved us! This is the Lord to whom we looked; let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!”

Amos 4:12

Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel: and since I will deal thus with you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

Matthew 24:31

And he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. The Lesson of the Fig Tree.

Matthew 24:44

So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come. The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant.

Matthew 25:1

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

Matthew 25:31

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne,

Matthew 25:5

Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

Matthew 25:7

Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

Luke 12:46

then that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out. Exhortation to Preparedness.

Revelation 16:15

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief.” Blessed is the one who watches and keeps his clothes ready, so that he may not go naked and people see him exposed.)