10. At that time many will fall away. They will betray each other and hate each other.
11. Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
12. Because disobedience will expand, the love of many will grow cold.
13. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.
14. This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world as a testimony to all the nations. Then the end will come.
15. “When you see the disgusting and destructive thing that Daniel talked about standing in the holy place (the reader should understand this),
16. then those in Judea must escape to the mountains.
17. Those on the roof shouldn’t come down to grab things from their houses.
18. Those in the field shouldn’t come back to grab their clothes.
19. How terrible it will be at that time for women who are pregnant and for women who are nursing their children.
20. Pray that it doesn’t happen in winter or on the Sabbath day.
21. There will be great suffering such as the world has never before seen and will never again see.
22. If that time weren’t shortened, nobody would be rescued. But for the sake of the ones whom God chose, that time will be cut short.