⁴And Jesus answered and^* said to them, “Watch out that no one deceives you! ⁵For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will deceive many. ⁶And you are going to hear about wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet. ⁷For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.^a ⁸But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

Persecution of Disciples Predicted

⁹“Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations^b because of my name. ¹⁰And then many will be led into sin and will betray one another and will hate one another, ¹¹and many false prophets will appear and will deceive many, ¹²and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold. ¹³But the one who endures to the end—this person will be saved. ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations,^c and then the end will come.

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Footnotes

*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
aOr “in place after place”
bOr “Gentiles”; the same Greek word can be translated “nations” or “Gentiles” depending on the context
cOr “Gentiles”; the same Greek word can be translated “nations” or “Gentiles” depending on the context