Matthew 24:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Matthew 24:8 Cross References

Isaiah 10:4

Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:12

The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:21

Manasseh Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, and together they are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Hosea 13:13

The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

Mark 13:8

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.

Luke 21:12

But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

Deuteronomy 28:59

then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.