Luke 21:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children! Everywhere in the land people will suffer horribly and be punished.

Cross References

Lamentations 4:10

Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

Daniel 8:19

and said: Listen, and I will tell you what will happen at the end of time, when God has chosen to show his anger.

Matthew 21:16

The men said to Jesus, “Don't you hear what those children are saying?” “Yes, I do!” Jesus answered. “Don't you know that the Scriptures say, ‘Children and infants will sing praises’?”

Matthew 21:41

The chief priests and leaders answered, “He will kill them in some horrible way. Then he will let his vineyard to people who will give him his share of grapes at harvest time.”

Matthew 21:44

Anyone who stumbles over this stone will be crushed, and anyone it falls on will be smashed to pieces.”

Matthew 24:19

It will be a terrible time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children.

Mark 13:17

It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children.

Luke 19:27

Now bring me the enemies who didn't want me to be their king. Kill them while I watch!”

Luke 19:43

Jerusalem, the time will come when your enemies will build walls around you to attack you. Armies will surround you and close in on you from every side.

Luke 23:29

Some day people will say, “Women who never had children are really fortunate!”

1 Corinthians 7:26

We are now going through hard times, and I think it is best for you to stay as you are.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

They keep us from speaking his message to the Gentiles and from leading them to be saved. The Jews have always gone too far with their sins. Now God has finally become angry and will punish them.

Hebrews 13:16

But don't forget to help others and to share your possessions with them. This too is like offering a sacrifice that pleases God.

James 5:1

You rich people should cry and weep! Terrible things are going to happen to you.

1 Peter 4:17

God has already begun judging his own people. And if his judgment begins with us, imagine how terrible it will be for those who refuse to obey his message. The Scriptures say,