Matthew 24:12 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹² and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.

¹ What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies? ² You crave things, and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, and cannot get them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have things because you do not ask for them. ³ You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures. ⁴ You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

¹ Come now, you rich people! weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are going to overtake you! ² Your wealth has rotted, your clothes are moth-eaten, ³ your gold and silver are rusted, and their rust will testify against you and eat into your very flesh, for you have stored up fire for the last days. ⁴ Why, the wages you have withheld from the laborers who have reaped your harvests cry aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously and voluptuously here on earth; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned and murdered the upright. Will he make no resistance?

⁴ But I hold it against you that you do not love as you did at first. ⁵ So remember how far you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

¹⁰ Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁵ I know what you are doing, and that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!