Luke 21:17-36

¹⁷and you will be hated by everyone because of me my name.

¹⁸Yet not a single hair of your heads will be lost!

¹⁹By your endurance you will win yourselves life.

²⁰As soon, however, as you see Jerusalem surrounded by armed camps, then you may know that the hour of her desecration is at hand.

²¹Then those of you who are in Judea must take refuge in the mountains, those who are in Jerusalem must leave at once, and those who are in the country places must not go into it.

²²For these are to be the days of vengeance, when all that scripture says will be fulfilled.

²³Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great suffering in the land, and anger against this people.

²⁴They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be taken prisoners to every land, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles, until their day is over — as it will be.

²⁵There will be signs, too, in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth despair among the nations, in their dismay at the roar of the sea and the surge.

²⁶People's hearts will fail them through dread of what is coming upon the world; for the forces of the heavens will be convulsed.

²⁷Then will be seen the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁸And, when these things begin to occur, look upwards and lift your heads, for your deliverance will be at hand.”

²⁹Then he taught them a lesson, saying — “Look at the fig tree and all the other trees.

³⁰As soon as they shoot, you know, as you look at them, without being told, that summer is near.

³¹And so may you, as soon as you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

³²I tell you that even the present generation will not pass away until all has taken place.

³³The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

³⁴Be on your guard or your minds will become dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and 'that day' will close on you suddenly like a trap.

³⁵For come it will on all who are living upon the face of the whole earth.

³⁶Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”