Matthew 24:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ But all these things are [only] the beginning of terrible times.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But all these things are the beginning of travail.

Common English Bible

⁸ But all these things are just the beginning of the sufferings associated with the end.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But all these things are just the beginning of the sorrows.

Matthew 24:8 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:3

[For] when people are saying, “Peace,” and “Safety,” then [is when] destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape it.

Mark 13:8

For nations will wage war against one another, and kingdoms will attack one another. And earthquakes will happen at various places [in the world], and there will be famines. These things are [only] the beginning of terrible times.

Luke 21:12

But before all these things happen, the authorities will grab hold of you, and persecute you, and turn you over to the synagogues and prisons [i.e., for punishment and confinement]. They will take you in front of kings and governors for being loyal to me.

James 5:1

Come on now, you rich people, cry and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.