New Living Translation (NLT)
Mark 13
9 “When these things begin to happen, watch out! You will be handed over to the local councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand trial before governors and kings because you are my followers. But this will be your opportunity to tell them about me.
10 For the Good News must first be preached to all nations.
11 But when you are arrested and stand trial, don’t worry in advance about what to say. Just say what God tells you at that time, for it is not you who will be speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
12 “A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed.
13 And everyone will hate you because you are my followers. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
14 “The day is coming when you will see the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing where he should not be.” (Reader, pay attention!) “Then those in Judea must flee to the hills.
15 A person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack.
16 A person out in the field must not return even to get a coat.
17 How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days.
18 And pray that your flight will not be in winter.
19 For there will be greater anguish in those days than at any time since God created the world. And it will never be so great again.
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