Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will lead many astray.

New American Standard Bible

For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.

King James Version

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Holman Bible

For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many.

International Standard Version

because many will come in my name and say, "I'm the Messiah,' and they will deceive many people.

American Standard Version

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.

Amplified

For many will come in My name [misusing it, and appropriating the strength of the name which belongs to Me], saying, ‘I am the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed),’ and they will mislead many.

An Understandable Version

For many [false teachers] will come, claiming to be me, and saying, 'I am the Christ [i.e., God's specially chosen one]' and they will lead many people away [from the truth].

Anderson New Testament

For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and will deceive many.

Bible in Basic English

For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.

Common New Testament

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.

Daniel Mace New Testament

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ: and shall deceive many.

Darby Translation

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.

Godbey New Testament

For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and they will deceive many.

Goodspeed New Testament

For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am the Christ,' and many will be misled by them.

John Wesley New Testament

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and shall deceive many.

Julia Smith Translation

For many shall come upon my name, saying, I am Christ; and deceive many.

King James 2000

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many.

Modern King James verseion

For many will come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For many shall come in my name saying, 'I am Christ': and shall deceive many.

Moffatt New Testament

for many will come in my name, saying 'I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many.

Montgomery New Testament

for many will come in my name saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.

NET Bible

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many.

New Heart English Bible

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Messiah,' and will lead many astray.

Noyes New Testament

For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many.

Sawyer New Testament

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and shall deceive many.

The Emphasized Bible

For, many, will come upon my name, saying - I, am the Christ, - and will, deceive many.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Messiah; and shall deceive multitudes.

Twentieth Century New Testament

for, many will take my name, and come saying 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.

Webster

For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and will deceive many.

Weymouth New Testament

"for many will come assuming my name and saying 'I am the Christ;' and they will mislead many.

Williams New Testament

for many will come bearing the name of the Messiah, and saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many people.

World English Bible

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.

Worrell New Testament

for many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.

Worsley New Testament

for many shall come in my name saying, I am the Christ, and shall deceive many.

Youngs Literal Translation

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall lead many astray,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

πολύς πολλός 
Polus 
Usage: 292

ἔρχομαι 
Erchomai 
come, go, , vr come
Usage: 424

in
ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

my
μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

ὄνομα 
Onoma 
name, named, called, surname , named , not tr
Usage: 162

λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

I
ἐγώ 
Ego 
I, my, me, not tr
Usage: 174

am
εἰμί 
Eimi 
I am , am, it is I , be, I was , have been, not tr
Usage: 72

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

πλανάω 
Planao 
deceive, err, go astray, seduce, wander, be out of the way
Usage: 25

Devotionals

Devotionals about Matthew 24:5

Context Readings

Signs Of The End Of The Age

4 And having answered, Jesus said to them, See that not any man may lead you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will lead many astray. 6 And ye are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye not be alarmed, for all the things must happen, but the end is not yet.


Cross References

Matthew 24:11

And many FALSE prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

Matthew 24:24

For there will arise FALSE Christs and FALSE prophets, and they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of the

1 John 2:18

Children, it is the last hour. And as ye heard that the antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have developed, from which we know that it is the last hour.

Jeremiah 23:21

I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23:25

I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father's name, and ye do not accept me. If another man should come in his own name, ye will accept that man.

Acts 5:36-37

For before these days Theudas rose up saying himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, bonded themselves, who was killed. And all, as many as were persuaded by him, were dispersed and developed into nothi

Acts 8:9-10

But a certain man in the city, Simon by name, was formerly practicing sorcery, and fascinating the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be some great man,

Revelation 13:8

And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.

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