⁵³ They will be divided, ^(A)father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

¹⁰ And then many will fall away^[a] and ^(A)betray one another and hate one another.

^21 (A)Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, ^22 (B)and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. ^(C)But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Idolatry Cut Off

² “And ^(A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, ^(B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that ^(C)they shall be remembered no more. And also ^(D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. ³ And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ^(E)‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

⁴ “On that day ^(F)every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, ⁵ but he will say, ^(G)‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’^{[a] 6} And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’^[b] he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’