6. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must happen but it is not yet the end.
7. For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
8. But all these things are only the beginning of birth pains.
9. “Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of My name.
10. And then many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one other.
11. Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
12. Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold.
13. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
14. This Good News of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15. “So when you see ‘the abomination of desolation,’ which was spoken of through 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 go down to take what is in his house,
18. and the one in the field must not turn back to get his coat.
19. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
20. Pray that your escape will not happen in winter, or on Shabbat.
21. For then there will be great trouble, such as has not happened since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
22. And unless those days were cut short, no one would be delivered. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be cut short.