Matthew 22:12
Good News Translation
'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' the king asked him. But the man said nothing.

New Revised Standard Version
and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless.

Contemporary English Version
The king asked, "Friend, why didn't you wear proper clothes for the wedding?" But the guest had no excuse.

New American Bible
He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.

Friend.

Matthew 20:13 But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

Matthew 26:50 And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and held him.

how.

Matthew 5:20 For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Acts 5:2-11 And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land, his wife being privy thereunto: and bringing a certain part of it, laid it at the feet of the apostles. . . .

Acts 8:20-23 Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

And he was.

1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

Job 5:16 And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.

Psalm 107:42 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Jeremiah 2:23,26 How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course. . . .

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Titus 3:11 Knowing that he that is such an one is subverted and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.

Context
The Parable of the Banquet
11And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment. 12And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent. 13Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.…
Cross References
Matthew 20:13
But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

Matthew 26:50
And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and held him.

Matthew 22:11
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