Matthew 24:12 Cross References - Wesley

¹² And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

¹ From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members? ² Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; yet ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures. ⁴ Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whosoever therefore desireth to be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.

¹ Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver is cankered, and the canker of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire: ye have laid up treasure in the last days. ⁴ Behold the hire of your labourers who have reaped your fields, which is kept back by you, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabbaoth. ⁵ Ye have lived delicately on earth, and been wanton; ye have cherished your hearts, as in a day of sacrifice. ⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just: he doth not resist you.

⁴ But I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love. ⁵ Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works: if not, I come to thee, and will remove thy candlestick out of its place, unless thou repent.

¹⁰ Fear none of those things which thou art about to suffer: behold the devil is about to cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye shall have affliction ten days: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: O that thou wert cold or hot!