Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

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

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Messiah,' and will lead many astray. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.


Cross References

Matthew 24:11

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

Matthew 24:24

For there will arise false messiahs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I did not send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

1 John 2:18

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

Jeremiah 23:21

I sent not 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 you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Acts 5:36-37

For before these days Todah rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

Acts 8:9-10

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

Revelation 13:8

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

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