and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.
`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,
and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'
and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.
and they were stumbled at him. And Jesus said to them, `A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house:'
`And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray;
and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.
`And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;
thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;
for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,
in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)