Matthew 24:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And because iniquity will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

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  • Rev 2:4-5 : 4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come to you quickly, and will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
  • Jas 4:1-4 : 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members? 2 You desire and do not have; you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your desires. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Rev 3:15 : 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were cold or hot.
  • Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear none of those things which you will suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.

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  • Matt 24:4-11
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    4And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no one deceives you.

    5For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.

    6And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

    7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

    8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

    9Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.

    10And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

    11And many false prophets will rise and will deceive many.

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    13But he who endures to the end will be saved.

    14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come.

    15Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand),

    16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

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    10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

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    12Now brother shall betray brother to death, and father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

    13And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved.

    14But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let the reader understand,) then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains:

  • 2 Tim 3:1-3
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    1Know this also, that in the last days perilous times will come.

    2For people will be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

    3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those who are good,

  • 13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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

    22And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved.

  • 7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt:

  • 24For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, 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; and there shall be earthquakes in various places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

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    16And you shall be betrayed both by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends; and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

    17And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.

  • 21For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.

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    34Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things are fulfilled.

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

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    10Then he said to them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

    11And great earthquakes shall be in various places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

  • 31Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful:

  • 6For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many.

  • 12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.

  • 35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

  • 15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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    18And pray that your flight be not in the winter.

    19For in those days will be affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be.

  • 25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

  • 5The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

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

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

  • 19But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!

  • 37But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

  • 11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.