Matthew 24:12 Cross References - Riverside

¹² and because of the wide spread of lawlessness the love of most will grow cold.

¹ WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members? ² You long for something and do not have it. You murder and envy and cannot obtain it. You battle and war. You do not have, because of your not asking. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask wickedly to waste it on your pleasures. ⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever chooses to be a friend to the world stands as an enemy of God.

¹ COME, now, you rich men, wail and lament over the miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten, ³ your gold and silver are rusted over and the rust on them will be an evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. ⁴ You have laid up treasures in the last days. See, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, fraudulently kept back by you, call aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have come into the ears of the Lord of armies. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously in the land and have given yourselves up to pleasure. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned, you have murdered, the righteous; he does not resist you.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you have lost your first love. ⁵ Remember then from where you have fallen, and repent and do your former works. Otherwise I am coming to you and will move your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

¹⁰ Do not fear what you are soon to suffer. The Devil will soon cast some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will have distress ten days. Be faithful to death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁵ "I know your deeds — that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!