For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.