What does the Bible say about the end times?
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The Bible teaches that the end times call God’s people to sober watchfulness, persevering faith, and confident hope in Christ’s promised return. Jesus warns that many will profess his name without truly knowing him, and he calls his disciples to be ready, for he will come at an unexpected hour (Matthew 7:21; Matthew 24:44). Scripture describes seasons of growing godlessness, deception, scoffing, and self-love, yet believers are to endure faithfully and pray for strength (2 Timothy 3:1-5; 2 Peter 3:3-4; Luke 21:36). God will judge every person righteously according to his works, while eternal life belongs to those who, by grace, persist in doing good through faith in Christ (Romans 2:6-8; Matthew 24:13).
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- 2 Timothy 3:1-5 4 votes
But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
- Matthew 7:21 4 votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 24:44 3 votes
Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.
- Romans 2:6-8 3 votes
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
- James 2:1-5 3 votes
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool” haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
- Luke 21:36 2 votes
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- Luke 23:29 2 votes
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
- Galatians 1:4 2 votes
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
- 2 Peter 3:3-4 2 votes
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
- Matthew 24:13 2 votes
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
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