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For nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
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"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will deliver you up to Sanhedrins; you will be brought into synagogues and cruelly beaten; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to be witnesses to them for me.
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But the proclamation of the Good News must be carried to all the Gentiles before the End comes.
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When however they are marching you along under arrest, do not be anxious beforehand about what you are to say, but speak what is given you when the time comes; for it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
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"Brother will betray brother to be killed, and fathers will betray children; and children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
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You will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name, but those who stand firm to the End will be saved.
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"As soon, however, as you see the Abomination of Desolation standing where he ought not" --let the reader observe these words--"then let those in Judaea escape to the hills;
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let him who is on the roof not come down and enter the house to fetch anything out of it;
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and let not him who is in the field turn back to pick up his outer garment.
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And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!
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"But pray that it may not come in the winter.