12 And on account of the abounding of iniquity, the love of many will decline.
Matthew 24:12 Cross References - Murdock
James 4:1-4
1 Whence is it, that there are among you fightings and broils? Is it not from the lusts, which war in your members?
2 Ye covet, and possess not; and ye kill, and envy, and effect nothing: and ye fight and make attacks; and ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not; because ye ask wickedly, that ye may pamper your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers, know ye not, that the love of the world is hostility towards God? He therefore who chooseth to be a lover of this world, is the enemy of God.
James 5:1-6
1 O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.
2 For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:
3 and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the reapers hath entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.
Revelation 2:4-5
Revelation 2:10
10 Be not terrified at any of the things thou art to suffer. For lo, the Accuser will throw some of you into custody, that ye may be tried; and there will be trouble to you ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
Revelation 3:15
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither hot, nor cold; I would that thou wert cold or hot.