Matthew 24:21 - The Scriptures 2009

²¹ For then there shall be great distress, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall 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 I shall do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I never do again, because of all your abominations.

Daniel 12:1

“Now at that time Miḵa’ĕl shall stand up, the great head who is standing over the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of distress, such as never was since there was a nation, until that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book,

Daniel 9:26

“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off and have naught. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the set-apart place. And the end of it is with a flood. And wastes are decreed, and fighting until the end.

Joel 1:2

Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains – a people many and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be again after them, to the years of many generations.

Malachi 4:1

“For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said יהוה of hosts, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch.

Matthew 24:20

“And pray that your flight does not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.

Matthew 24:29

And immediately after the distress of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Mark 13:9

“But take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to councils and to congregations. You shall be beaten, and you shall be brought before rulers and sovereigns for My sake, for a witness to them.

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Yerushalayim shall be trampled underfoot by the nations until the times of the nations are filled.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, so as to fill up their sins always. But the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

Revelation 16:18

And there came to be noises and thunders and lightnings. And there came to be a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not came to be since men were on the earth.

Revelation 7:14

And I said to him, “Master, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those coming out of the great distress, having washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.