1 Thessalonians 5:3

A Conservative Version

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

Cross References

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;

2 Thessalonians 1:9

Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Proverbs 29:1

He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare heavenly agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment,

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! For my soul faints

Acts 13:41

Behold, ye scoffers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, which ye would, no, not believe, if some man should fully narrate it to you.

Jeremiah 22:23

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

Jeremiah 13:21

What will thou say when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou thyself have taught to be friends to thee? Shall not sorrows take hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

Isaiah 56:12

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

Psalm 48:6

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

Nahum 1:10

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

Hebrews 12:23

to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

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 sons.

Isaiah 30:13

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

Deuteronomy 29:19

and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how will ye escape from the damnation of hell?

Job 15:21

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.

Psalm 55:15

Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. 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, a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them (LXX/NT).

Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitant of this coastland shall say in that day, Behold, such is our trust, where 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 thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passes away. Yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

Isaiah 47:9

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

Isaiah 47:11

Therefore evil shall come upon thee. Thou shall not know the dawning of it. And mischief shall fall upon thee. Thou shall not be able to put it away. And desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou know not.

Jeremiah 6:14

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

Jeremiah 8:11

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

Jeremiah 14:19

Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have 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!

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there is no peace, and when [a man] builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered [mortar],

John 16:21

When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

Judges 8:11

And Gideon went up by the way of those who dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the army, for the army was confident.

Job 24:23

[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.