Popular Bible Verses from Matthew 24

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More and more people everywhere will be doing very bad things. Because of this, many people will no longer love each other in the way that they did before. But God will save the person who remains strong until the end.

People will tell the good news about God's kingdom to people all over the world. People in every country will hear the true message from God. Then God will cause the world to come to an end.

You will hear news about wars. You will hear reports about wars in other places. But you must not be afraid. Those things must happen first, but it is not yet the end of everything.

People in one country will attack the people in another country. Kings and their armies will fight against other kings and their armies. In some places, people will be hungry, with no food. The ground will shake with earthquakes in many different places. All those things will be like the first pains that a mother has before her baby is born.

One day, the earth and the sky will have an end. But my words will be there for ever.’

Many people will say that they have come on my behalf. They will say, “I am the Messiah.” Many people will believe their false words.

Then people will take hold of you and they will cause you to suffer. They will even kill some of you. People in every country will hate you because you are my disciples. At that time, many people will turn away from God. They will turn against one another. They will hate each other. Also at that time, many people will say that they are prophets from God. Their message is false, but many people will believe them.

Jesus said, ‘You must be careful! Some people will tell you things that are not true. Do not believe them.

So you must also be ready. The Son of Man will come at a time when you are not thinking about it.’

So you must watch carefully! You do not know the day when your Master will come back.

Jesus then said, ‘Nobody knows the day or the hour when all these things will happen. Only God the Father knows when they will happen. The angels who are in heaven do not know. Even the Son does not know.

Some people will say to you, “I am the Messiah!” Other people will say, “I am a prophet from God.” But their words will be false. They will do strange and powerful things for people to see. If possible, they would even deceive the people that God has chosen.

Remember what happened when Noah was alive. It will be like that when the Son of Man returns to the earth. In Noah's time, in the days before the flood, people were eating their meals every day. Men married women and women married men. They continued to do all these things until the day that Noah went into his big boat. The people did not know what would happen. Then the flood happened and all these people died in the deep water. When the Son of Man returns, it will happen quickly in the same way.