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Matthew 24:11Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:22And he said to them, “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:33As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:44Jesus answered them, “Watch out that no one misleads you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:55For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:66You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:77For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:88All these things are the beginning of birth pains.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:99“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1010Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1111And many false prophets will appear and deceive many,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1212and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1313But the person who endures to the end will be saved.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1414And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1515“So when you see the abomination of desolation —spoken about by Daniel the prophet—standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand),Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1616“then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1717The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1818and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:1919Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2020Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2121For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2222And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2323Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2424For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2525Remember, I have told you ahead of time.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2626So then, if someone says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2727For just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2828Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:2929“Immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3030Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3131And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3232“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3333So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3434I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3535Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3636“But as for that day and hour no one knows it—not even the angels in heaven —except the Father alone.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3737For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3838For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:3939And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4040Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4141There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4242“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4343But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4444Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4545“Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4646Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4747I tell you the truth, the master will put him in charge of all his possessions.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4848But if that evil slave should say to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:4949and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:5050then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
Matthew 24:5151and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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