Signs of the Beginning of Sorrows

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And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray,

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for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall lead many astray,

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and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

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`For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;

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and all these are the beginning of sorrows;

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then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

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and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

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`And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray;

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and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

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but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

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and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.