Matthew 24:12 Cross References - Lamsa

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

¹ FROM whence come conflicts and quarrels among you? Is it not from the lusts that war in your members? ² You covet, and do not obtain; you kill and envy, but you cannot possess; you strive and fight, yet you have nothing, because you do not ask. ³ You ask and you do not receive because you do not ask sincerely, you ask that you may satisfy your lusts. ⁴ O you adulterers! Do you not know that the love for worldly things is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, esteems worldly things is the enemy of God.

¹ O YOU rich men, weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon you! ² Your riches are destroyed and rotted, and your garments are moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are tarnished, and the rust of them will be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh. The treasures which you have heaped together will be as fire to you for the last days. ⁴ Behold, the wage of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, that which you have fraudulently kept back, cries: and the cry of the reapers has already entered into the ears of the LORD of sabaoth. ⁵ For you have had your luxuries on earth and have been greedy; you have fed your bodies as for the day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned and murdered the righteous; and yet he does not resist you.

⁴ Nevertheless I have something against you, because you have left your first love. ⁵ Remember therefore from whence you have fallen and repent and do the first works; or else I will come to you very soon, and I will remove your candlestick from its place except you repent.

¹⁰ Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you be tried; and you will be oppressed for ten days: be faithful even to death, and I will give you a crown of life.

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot; it is better to be either cold or hot.