13 Everyone will hate you because of me. But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
14 "You will see 'the hated thing that destroys.' (Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11) It will stand where it does not belong. The reader should understand this. Then those who are in Judea should escape to the mountains.
15 No one on the roof should go down into his house to take anything out.
16 No one in the field should go back to get his coat.
17 How awful it will be in those days for pregnant women! How awful for nursing mothers!
18 Pray that this will not happen in winter.
19 "Those days will be worse than any others from the time God created the world until now. And there will never be any like them again.