Matthew 24:7-9

International Standard Version

⁷ because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ But all these things are only a beginning of agonies.”

Future Persecution, Apostasy, and Evangelism^(A)

⁹ “Then they’ll hand you over to suffer^[a] and will kill you, and you’ll be hated by all the nations^[b] on account of my name.