Matthew 28:20 Cross References - MNT

²⁰ teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

²³ Behold! the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son; and they shall call his name Immanuel, a word which means "God with us."

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

²⁴ "Every one who hears my words and does them I will liken to a wise man who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house, but it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock. ²⁶ "And every one who hears these words of mine and does them not, I will liken to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷ "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."

³⁹ "The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰ "Just as the weeds are collected together and burnt with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

⁴⁹ "So will it be at the end of the age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from the righteous, and fling them into the furnace of fire.

²⁰ "For wherever there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I among them."

³ When he had seated himself on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"

²⁰ But they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the message by the miracles which followed.

¹⁸ "I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. ¹⁹ "Yet a little while and the world shall see me no more, but you shall see me; because I live, you, too, shall live. ²⁰ "At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ "It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him." ²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

⁴² and they stedfastly continued in the teaching of the apostles, and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in a vision, by night. "Have no fear; go on speaking, and do not keep silent; ¹⁰ "for I am with you, and no one shall set upon you to injure you; for I have very many people in this city."

²⁰ "You know that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, nor from teaching you publicity and in your homes, ²¹ testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁷ I never shrank from telling you the whole counsel of God.

² Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.

²³ For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,

³⁷ If any one thinks himself a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that what I am now writing you is a command of the Lord.

¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ— ¹³ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. ¹⁴ So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error; ¹⁵ but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ. ¹⁶ From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part. ¹⁷ This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus. ²² You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive; ²³ and to be made new in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth. ²⁵ So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another. ²⁶ "Be angry and sin not"; let not the sun go down upon your anger. ²⁷ Give the devil no place. ²⁸ Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy. ²⁹ From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers. ³⁰ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice; ³² and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.

²⁸ Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.

¹ Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God—and you are actually doing so—that you abound in it yet more and more. ² For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus.

⁶ I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me. ⁷ For you know well how you must imitate me. For I did not lead an idle or disorderly life among you; ⁸ I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you. ⁹ Not that I have no right to such support; it was simply to give you an example for you to imitate. ¹⁰ For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat." ¹¹ But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies. ¹² Now all such I command and entreat, by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to work in quietness. and to earn their own living.

¹ Let those who are under the yoke as slaves esteem their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teachings be not blasphemed. ² Those whose masters are Christian believers must not treat them with disrespect, because they are brothers; nay, rather slave for them the better because those who get the benefit of their services are believing and beloved. Continue to teach and preach this. ³ If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion, ⁴ he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

¹⁷ Nevertheless the Lord Jesus stood by me, and strengthened my heart, that through me full proclamation of the gospel might be made, and the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the lion's jaws.

¹ But do you, on your part, speak what becomes sound teaching; ² that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience; ³ that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right. ⁴ They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind and submissive to their husbands, in order that God's message be not maligned. ⁶ The younger men exhort to be sober-minded; in every respect showing yourself an example of good works. ⁷ In your teaching be serious and sincere. ⁸ Let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that our opponents may be ashamed because they find no evil things to say about us. ⁹ Exhort slaves to be obedient to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in every respect; ¹⁰ not to contradict nor pilfer, but to exhibit praiseworthy trustworthiness in every thing, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

¹⁰ you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy. ¹¹ I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls. ¹² Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation. ¹³ Submit yourselves, for the Lord's sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler, ¹⁴ or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers. ¹⁵ For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. ¹⁶ Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor. ¹⁸ Household slaves, submit yourselves to your masters in all reverence; not only to the kind and gentle, but also to the unreasonable. ¹⁹ For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly.

⁵ For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge, ⁶ and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety, ⁷ and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself. ⁸ For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins. ¹⁰ So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble. ¹¹ For so the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

² I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles.

³ This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments. ⁴ He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,

¹⁹ By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth, ²⁰ and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us, because God is greater than our heart and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight. ²³ His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do. ²⁴ He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

¹⁸ I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades.

¹⁴ "Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City.

²⁰ He who testifies this says, "Yea, I am coming quickly." Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! ²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with the saints!