Matthew 24:21 — Compare Translations

28 translations compared side by side

For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now--no, and never will be [again]. [Dan. 12:1; Joel 2:2.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now–no, and never will be [again]. [Dan. 12:1; Joel 2:2.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - 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.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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 EASY 2024

Great troubles will happen to people at that time. Nothing as bad has ever happened before, since the beginning of the world. Nothing as bad will ever happen again.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

because it will be a time of great trouble. There will be more trouble than has ever happened since the beginning of the world. And nothing as bad as that will ever happen again.

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.

English GNT (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.

English God's Word - GW 1995

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.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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!

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For then will be great distress, such as has not happened since the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - 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.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

for at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

There will be terrible suffering in those days. It will be worse than any other from the beginning of the world until now. And there will never be anything like it again.

English NIV

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again.

English NKJ 1982

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.

English NLT

For that will be a time of greater horror than anything the world has ever seen or will ever see again.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For this will be a time of great misery beyond the magnitude of anything the world has ever seen or ever will see. Unless God limited those days, no one would escape.

English RSV (Revised 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.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For there will be persecution such as the world has never before seen in all its history and will never see again.

English Tyndale 1537

For then shall be great tribulation,(trouble) such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor(ner) shall be.