And at that time many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
- KJV And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall 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.
- 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 7:5–6Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
- Mark 13:12“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Luke 21:16You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
- Matt 11:6Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
- Mark 4:17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
- 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
- Matt 13:21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
- John 6:66–67At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- Matt 10:21“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Matt 10:35–36For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- 2 Tim 4:10for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- Matt 26:31–34Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- 2 Tim 1:15This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- Matt 13:57They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”
- John 6:60–61Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
- Matt 26:21–24As they were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
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