Matthew 24:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again.

New Living Translation
For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. And it will never be so great again.

English Standard Version
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Berean Study Bible
For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.

New American Standard Bible
For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will again.

NASB 1995
"For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

NASB 1977
for then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.

Amplified Bible
For at that time there will be a great tribulation (pressure, distress, oppression), such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will [again].

Christian Standard Bible
For at that time there will be great distress, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn't taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

Contemporary English Version
This will be the worst time of suffering since the beginning of the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again.

Good News Translation
For the trouble at that time will be far more terrible than any there has ever been, from the beginning of the world to this very day. Nor will there ever be anything like it again.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There will be a lot of misery at that time, a kind of misery that has not happened from the beginning of the world until now and will certainly never happen again.

International Standard Version
because at that time there will be great suffering, the kind that hasn't happened from the beginning of the world until now and certainly won't ever happen again.

NET Bible
For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

New King James Version
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.

King James 2000 Bible
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

New Heart English Bible
for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

World English Bible
for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

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

American Standard Version
for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

A Faithful Version
For then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until this time, nor ever shall be again.

Darby Bible Translation
for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be;

English Revised Version
for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

Webster's Bible Translation
For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the worlde to this time, nor shalbe.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For then shalbe great tribulation, such as was not since the begynnyng of the worlde, to this tyme, nor shalbe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For then shal there be greate trouble, soch as was not from the begynnynge of the worlde vnto this tyme, ner shalbe.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For then shalbe greate tribulacio suche as was not fro the beginninge of the worlde to this tyme ner shalbe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for there will then be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor may be.

Berean Literal Bible
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, and never shall be.

Young's Literal Translation
for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

Smith's Literal Translation
For then shall be great pressure, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor should be.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For there will be then great tribulation such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now nor shall ever be.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until the present, and such as will not be.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For then there will be great suffering, which has not been from the beginning of the world even until now, neither will be.

Lamsa Bible
For then will be great suffering, such as has never happened from the beginning of the world until now, and never will be again.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
for then shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor shall ever be.

Godbey New Testament
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world even until now nor ever may be.

Haweis New Testament
For then the tribulation will be great, such as never was from the beginning of the world, and never more shall be.

Mace New Testament
for the desolation will be so dreadful, the like was never seen since the beginning of the world, no, nor ever shall be again.

Weymouth New Testament
for it will be a time of great suffering, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now, and assuredly never will be again.

Worrell New Testament
for then will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now; no, nor ever shall be.

Worsley New Testament
for there shall be then great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world unto this time, no, nor ever shall be.
















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