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"So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

But He responded and said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down."

"And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.

"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.

"But the one who endures to the end is the one who will be saved.

"But woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

"And if those days had not been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

"But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

"But about that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

"But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

"But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time,'

but the prudent ones took oil in flasks with their lamps.

"But at midnight there finally was a shout: 'Behold, the groom! Come out to meet him.'

"But the foolish virgins said to the prudent ones, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

"But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the groom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

"But he answered, 'Truly I say to you, I do not know you.'

"But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.

"But his master answered and said to him, 'You worthless, lazy slave! Did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter seed?

"For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.