Matthew 22:11

Wedding - garment; it was customary for the man who made a wedding-feast, to provide wedding-garments for those whom he invited. If they would not come, or if they did come, but would not put on the wedding-garment, it was a great dishonor to the master of the feast. By this incident of the parable, our Lord shows that an outward acceptance of his gospel is not enough. We may join ourselves to the number of his visible followers; but if our souls have not the wedding-garment of faith, love, and holiness, we shall be cast out. A time is coming when God will examine into every man's character, and when those who have trusted to their own righteousness, without submission to or acceptance of the righteousness of Christ, will, with hypocrites and the openly vicious, be cast into outer darkness, where is weeping and gnashing of teeth.