1 Thessalonians 5:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

when 'all's well' and 'all is safe' are on the lips of men, then all of a sudden Destruction is upon them, like pangs on a pregnant woman — escape there is none.

Cross References

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

2 Thessalonians 1:9

men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:

Acts 13:41

Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."

Hebrews 12:23

to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Matthew 23:33

You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

John 16:21

When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world: