Matthew 24:12

American Standard Version (1901)

And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.

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  • Rev 2:4-5 : 4 But I have [this] against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love. 5 Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.
  • Jas 4:1-4 : 1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
  • Rev 3:15 : 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
  • Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one] ; he doth not resist you.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

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  • Matt 24:4-11
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    4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray.

    5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.

    6And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for [these things] must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

    7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.

    8But all these things are the beginning of travail.

    9Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

    10And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

    11And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.

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    13But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

    14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.

    15When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),

    16then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

    3And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

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    10and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    11And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:

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    12And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

    13And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

    14But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not (let him that readeth understand), then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:

  • 2 Tim 3:1-3
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    1But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.

    2For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

    3without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

  • 13But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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    21And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

    22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

  • 7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

  • 24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

  • 24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

  • 8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail.

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    16But ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and [some] of you shall they cause to be put to death.

    17And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

  • 21for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

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    34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

    35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

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    10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

    11and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

  • 31without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:

  • 6Many shall come in my name, saying, I am [he] ; and shall lead many astray.

  • 12Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

  • 35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

  • 15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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    18And pray ye that it be not in the winter.

    19For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.

  • 25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;

  • 5The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

  • 3For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

  • 34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  • 19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

  • 37And as [were] the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

  • 11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.