And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
- BSB At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
- NKJV And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
- NASB And at that time many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another.
- NLT And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other.
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Quick answer
Many will fall away, betray, and hate one another. It warns that persecution will cause some to abandon the faith.
Overview
Under pressure, many will stumble, turning on fellow believers and renouncing their profession. Persecution tests the genuineness of faith, revealing those whose commitment is shallow. This sober warning calls disciples to perseverance and to guard the love that should bind Christ's people together even in hardship.
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Cross-references · 16
- Mic 7:5–6Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
- Mark 13:12Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
- Luke 21:16And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
- Matt 11:6And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
- Mark 4:17And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
- 2 Tim 4:16At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
- Matt 13:21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
- John 6:66–67From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- Matt 10:21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Matt 10:35–36For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
- 2 Tim 4:10For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
- Matt 26:31–34Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
- 2 Tim 1:15This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
- Matt 13:57And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
- John 6:60–61Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
- Matt 26:21–24And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
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