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Let him who is on the house-top not come down to take any thing out of his house:
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Neither let him who is in the field return back to take his clothes.
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And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days!
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But pray ye that your flight may not be in the winter, neither on the sabbath:
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For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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And except those days should be shortened, there would no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
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Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not.
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For false Christs will arise, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders; so that, if [it were] possible, they would deceive the very elect.
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Behold, I have told you before.
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Wherefore, if they shall say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.
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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.