Matthew 24:5 - English Majority Text Version 2009

For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.

American Standard Version (1901)

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.

Common English Bible

Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I’m the Christ.’ They will deceive many people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For many will come in my name saying, 'I am the Christ.' And they will lead many astray.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.

Matthew 24:5 Cross References

Matthew 24:11

Then many false prophets will be raised up, and they will deceive many.

Matthew 24:24

For false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

John 5:43

I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

John 8:24

Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins."

John 8:28

Therefore Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and from Myself I do nothing; but just as My Father taught Me, these things I speak.

1 John 2:18

Little children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 2:22

Who is a liar but the [one] who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the [one] who denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:3

and every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of the Antichrist, which you have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

Revelation 13:8

And all those who dwell on the earth shall worship him, whose name is not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.