Matthew 24:12 Cross References - ABU

¹² And because iniquity abounds, the love of the many will become cold.

¹ FROM whence are wars, and from whence are fightings among you? Are they not from hence, from your lusts that war in your members? ² Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and can not obtain; ye fight and war. Ye have not, because ye ask not; ³ ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. ⁴ Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

¹ COME now, ye rich, weep, wailing for your miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver is rusted; and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. Ye heaped up treasure, in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers who reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, cries out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ Ye have been luxurious on the earth, and lived in pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.

⁴ But I have this against thee, that thou hast left thy first love. ⁵ Remember therefore from whence thou hast fallen, and repent, and do the first works; but if not, I am coming to thee, and will remove thy lamp-stand out of its place, if thou repent not.

¹⁰ Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer. Behold, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye will have affliction ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot.