Matthew 24:12
Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
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- Rev 2:4-5 : 4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
- Jas 4:1-4 : 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an 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, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
- Rev 2:10 : 10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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- Matt 24:4-118 verses79%
4Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.
5For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.
6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
8But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
9Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
10Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
11Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
- Matt 24:13-164 verses72%
13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
14This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15"When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
- 2 Pet 2:2-32 verses70%
2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
- 2 Thess 2:10-112 verses70%
10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
- Mark 13:12-143 verses69%
12"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
13You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will 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 those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
- 2 Tim 3:1-33 verses68%
1But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
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13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
- Matt 10:21-222 verses67%
21"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
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7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will melt.
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24For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
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24But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
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8For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.
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16You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
17You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.
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21for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
- Matt 24:34-352 verses66%
34Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.
35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- Luke 21:10-112 verses65%
10Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
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31without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
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6For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!' and will lead many astray.
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12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
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35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
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15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.
- Mark 13:18-192 verses64%
18Pray that your flight won't be in the winter.
19For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
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25There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
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5The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
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3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
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34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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19But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
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37"As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
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11Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.