⁹“Then you will be handed over to be persecutedⁿ and put to death,^o and you will be hated by all nations because of me.^p ¹⁰At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, ¹¹and many false prophets^q will appear and deceive many people.^r ¹²Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, ¹³but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.^s ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom^t will be preached in the whole world^u as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

¹⁵“So when you see standing in the holy place^v ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’^a^w spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—¹⁶then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷Let no one on the housetop^x go down to take anything out of the house. ¹⁸Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. ¹⁹How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!^y ²⁰Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.

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Footnotes

a Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11

Cross references

n Mt 10:17
o Jn 16:2
pSee Jn 15:21
qSee Mt 7:15
rSee Mk 13:5
sSee Mt 10:22
tSee Mt 4:23
u Lk 2:1; 4:5; Ac 11:28; 17:6; See Ro 10:18
vSee Ac 6:13
w Da 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
x 1 Sa 9:25; Mt 10:27; Lk 12:3; Ac 10:9
y Lk 23:29