Matthew 24:21 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²¹ For at that time there will be great suffering, 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 to you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.

Daniel 12:1

“At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Daniel 9:26

After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops 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, O elders, give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come.

Malachi 4:1

See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, 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 suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Mark 13:9

“As for yourselves, beware; for they will hand you over to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them.

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins; but God's wrath has overtaken them at last.

Revelation 16:18

And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a violent earthquake, such as had not occurred since people were upon the earth, so violent was that earthquake.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you are the one that knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.