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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.
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"As for yourselves, beware; for they will hand you over to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them.
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And the good news must first be proclaimed to all nations.
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When they bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
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Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;
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and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
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"But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains;
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the one on the housetop must not go down or enter the house to take anything away;
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the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat.
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Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!
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Pray that it may not be in winter.