Matthew 24:21 - English Standard Version 2016

²¹ For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now–no, and never will be [again]. [Dan. 12:1; Joel 2:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

Common English Bible

²¹ There will be great suffering such as the world has never before seen and will never again see.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until the present, and such as will not be.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.

Matthew 24:21 Cross References

Ezekiel 5:9

And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.

Daniel 12:1

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

Daniel 9:26

And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Joel 1:2

Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Matthew 24:20

Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Mark 13:9

“But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!

Revelation 16:18

And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.