Matthew 24:12 Cross References - Godbey

¹² And because iniquity doth abound, the divine love of many will grow cold.

¹ Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members? ² You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask: ³ you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures. ⁴ O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.

¹ Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten: ³ your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the wages of the laborers having reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out: and the voices of the reapers have come into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ Ye flourished upon the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter. ⁶ You condemned, you murdered the righteous; nothing antagonizes you.

⁴ But I have something against you, because you have left your first love. ⁵ Remember therefore whence you have fallen, and repent, and do your first works; lest I come to you, and shall move your candlestick out of its place, if you do not repent.

¹⁰ Fear not those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were either cold or hot.