1 Thessalonians 5:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

Common English Bible

³ When they are saying, “There is peace and security,” at that time sudden destruction will attack them, like labor pains start with a pregnant woman, and they definitely won’t escape.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For when they will say, "Peace and security!" then destruction will suddenly overwhelm them, like the labor pains of a woman with child, and they will not escape.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 Cross References

Job 15:21

A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him:

Job 24:23

God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there; Pain, as of a woman in travail.

Psalm 55:15

Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into the pit: For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

Psalm 69:22

Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

Proverbs 29:1

He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy.

Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitant of this coastland shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of they foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

Isaiah 47:11

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not.

Isaiah 47:9

but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: in their full measure shall they come upon thee, despite of the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.

Jeremiah 13:21

What wilt thou say, when he shall set thy friends over thee as head, seeing thou thyself hast instructed them against thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the fame thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 8:11

And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar:

Hosea 13:13

The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

Nahum 1:10

For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgement of hell?

John 16:21

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.

Acts 13:41

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.

Deuteronomy 29:19

and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of mine heart, to destroy the moist with the dry:

2 Thessalonians 1:9

who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement;

Judges 8:11

And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the host was secure.