Matthew 24:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁸ all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

Persecutions Foretold

⁹ ‘Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. ¹⁰ Then many will fall away,^[a] and they will betray one another and hate one another.