1 Thessalonians 5:3

God's Word

When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.

Cross References

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds are in his ears. While he enjoys peace, the destroyer comes to him.

Job 24:23

⌞God⌟ may let them feel confident and self-reliant, but his eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction surprise them. Let the net that they hid catch them. Let them fall into their own pit and be destroyed.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling seized them like the trembling that a woman experiences during labor.

Psalm 55:15

Let death suddenly take ⌞wicked people⌟! Let them go into the grave while they are still alive, because evil lives in their homes as well as in their hearts.

Psalm 69:22

Let the table set for them become a trap and a snare for their friends.

Proverbs 29:1

A person who will not bend after many warnings will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

Isaiah 20:6

When that day comes, those who live on this coastland will say, ‘Look at what has happened to our hope. We ran ⌞to Egypt⌟ for help to be rescued from the king of Assyria. How can we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 29:5

Your many enemies will be like fine dust. Your many foes will be like husks blown by the wind. All of this will happen suddenly, unexpectedly.

Isaiah 30:13

That is why your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.

Isaiah 47:11

But evil will happen to you. You won’t know how to keep it away. Disaster will strike you. You won’t be able to stop it. Destruction will overtake you suddenly. You won’t expect it.

Isaiah 47:9

In one day both of these will happen to you instantly: the loss of your children and your husband. All this will happen to you in spite of your evil magic and your many spells.

Isaiah 56:12

⌞Each one cries,⌟ “Let me get some wine, and we’ll fill ourselves with liquor. And tomorrow will be like today, only better.”

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when God makes the people you thought were your friends your new masters? Won’t pain grip you like a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us so hard that we cannot heal? We hope for peace, but no good comes from it. We hope for a time of healing, but there’s only terror.

Jeremiah 22:23

You live in Lebanon and have your nest in the cedars. But you will groan when pain strikes you, pain like a woman giving birth to a child.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a woman in labor. I hear the woman cry with anguish as she gives birth to her first child. My people Zion are gasping for breath. They are stretching out their hands, saying, “How horrible it is for us! We’re defenseless in the presence of murderers!”

Jeremiah 6:14

They treat my people’s wounds as though they were not serious, saying, ‘Everything is alright! Everything is alright!’ But it’s not alright.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the news about them. Our hands hang limp. We are gripped by anguish and pain like a woman giving birth to a child.

Jeremiah 8:11

They treat my dear people’s wounds as though they were not serious, saying, “Everything is alright! Everything is alright!” But it’s not alright.

Ezekiel 13:10

“ ‘They have deceived my people by saying that everything is alright, but it’s not alright. When someone builds a flimsy wall, the prophets cover it up with paint.

Hosea 13:13

They have the opportunity to live again, but they are not smart enough to take it. They are like a baby who is about to be born but won’t come out of its mother’s womb.

Nahum 1:10

⌞The people of Nineveh will be⌟ like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw.

Matthew 23:33

“You snakes! You poisonous snakes! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

John 16:21

A woman has pain when her time to give birth comes. But after the child is born, she doesn’t remember the pain anymore because she’s happy that a child has been brought into the world.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you mockers! Be amazed and die! I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe even if it were reported to you!’ ”

Deuteronomy 29:19

Someone may hear the conditions of this promise. He may think that he is so blessed that he can say, “I’ll be safe even if I go my own stubborn way. After all, ⌞the Lord would never⌟ sweep away well-watered ground along with dry ground.”

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will pay the penalty by being destroyed forever, by being separated from the Lord’s presence and from his glorious power.

Hebrews 12:23

and to the assembly of God’s firstborn children (whose names are written in heaven). You have come to a judge (the God of all people) and to the spirits of people who have God’s approval and have gained eternal life.

Hebrews 2:3

So how will we escape punishment if we reject the important message, the message that God saved us? First, the Lord told this saving message. Then those who heard him confirmed that message.

2 Peter 2:4

God didn’t spare angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, where he has secured them with chains of darkness and is holding them for judgment.

Judges 8:11

So Gideon went up Tent Dwellers Road, east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and defeated the unsuspecting Midianite army.