7. For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
8. All these things are the beginning of birth pains.
9. “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
10. Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.
11. And many false prophets will appear and deceive many,
12. and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.
13. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
14. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15. “So when you see the abomination of desolation – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
16. then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.
17. The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,
18. and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.
19. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
20. Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.
21. For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
22. And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.