Matthew 24:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will lead many astray.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.

Common English Bible

⁵ Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I’m the Christ.’ They will deceive many people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ 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

⁵ For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.

Matthew 24:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 14:14

And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.

Jeremiah 23:21

I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23:25

I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, “I have dreamed! I have dreamed!”

Jeremiah 37:9

Thus says the Lord: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.

Matthew 24:11

And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.

John 8:24

I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.”

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

1 John 2:18

Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 2:22

Who is the 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 that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

Revelation 13:8

and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.