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4 Jesus answered, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.
5 For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am the Christ,' and many will be misled by them.
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of war; do not let yourselves be alarmed. They have to come, but that is not the end.
7 For nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes here and there.
8 All this is only the beginning of the sufferings.
9 Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.
10 Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
11 Many false prophets will appear, and many will be misled by them,
12 and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.
13 But he who holds out to the end will be saved.
14 And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.
15 "So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"—the reader must take note of this—
16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;
17 a man on the roof of his house must not go down to get things out of it,
18 and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat.
19 But alas for women who are with child at that time or who have babies!
20 And pray that you may not have to fly in winter or on the Sabbath,
21 for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again.
22 If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.
23 "If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it,
24 for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.