tutstar, I have been searching for the last hour for that verse too.!! Just cannot quote it in my head enough to do the search on BibleGateway!!.....if you find it, ping me.
John 16:1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Jhn 16:3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
"Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake."
This may or may not be the verse you are looking for. Christ was describing to His disciples the conditions that would be in existance here on earth shortly before His return. Those living who know the Lord and attempt to obey him will be afflicted by the vast majority, who never have and never will, recognize Him as the Son of God and their savior as well. When they attempt to do right, they will be hated, scorned, and delivered up to certain death of their physical bodies.
Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold........Well we can see the love of the "many" waxing cold, playing out before us right now. In Romans 1, and 2Tim 3, Saint Paul describes these people as without "natural affection". That is so clear.
Those we should be protecting and caring for, the very young, the elderly, and the mentally impaired, should always be in the forefront of our consciousness and ones to be protected and cared for, nurtured and loved. Instead, there are the fiends and ghouls like Michael, and Greer, and Felos, who want to rid them from among us. Utterly disgraceful and wicked behavior is justified. I am beyond words with the grief this has caused withing me. I am shaken to my very core and what I see going on around me.
pattyjo
This is all I could find, so far:
Matthew 24:8-14
All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.