Luke 21:23

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

It will be too bad for pregnant women and those who are nursing [babies] in those days! For there will be great distress in this land [i.e., Judea, and especially Jerusalem], and raging anger [will be shown] against these people [i.e., by the Roman armies].

Cross References

Matthew 21:16

They said to Jesus, “Do you hear what these [children] are saying [about you]?” Jesus answered them, “Yes, [I do]. Have you not read [in Psa. 8:2] ‘You have ordained that praise would come from the mouths of infants and small children?’”

Matthew 21:41

They answered him; “He will bring terrible destruction on those evil men and will lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will deliver the crops to him each harvest time.”

Matthew 21:44

And the person who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but whoever it falls on will be scattered like dust.”

Matthew 24:19

It will be too bad for those who are pregnant and who are nursing babies in those days.

Mark 13:17

[It will be] too bad for those who are pregnant and those who are nursing babies in those days.

Luke 19:27

But bring those enemies of mine here [i.e., the citizens. See verse 14], who did not want me to rule over them, and kill them in front of me.’'

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a dirt wall around you, surrounding you, and hemming you in on every side.

Luke 23:29

For look, the time will come when people will be saying, ‘Those [women] who are without children and who have never given birth or nursed babies are [truly] happy!’

1 Corinthians 7:26

So, because of the impending crisis, I think it is a good thing for a man to remain as he is.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

for they [even] try to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles, so that they can be saved. [In doing this] they are always piling up one sin on another. But the wrath [of God] has come upon them at last [or, “completely”].

Hebrews 13:16

But do not forget to do good deeds and share [with others], for God is very pleased with such “sacrifices.”

James 5:1

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

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has [now] come for the house of God [the church, See I Tim. 3:15] to begin receiving judgment [i.e., by undergoing persecution], and if it starts with us [Christians], what will be the [ultimate] end of people who do not obey the Gospel of God?