1 Thessalonians 5:3

Modern English Version

When they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

Cross References

Job 15:21

A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they rely on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall in it, to his destruction.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, and pain, as of a woman in labor,

Psalm 55:15

Let death seize them, and let them go down alive to Sheol, for wickedness is in their dwellings and in their midst.

Psalm 69:22

Let their table become a snare before them, and let their peace be a trap.

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

Isaiah 20:6

So the inhabitants of this coastland shall say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And how shall we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 29:5

Moreover the multitude of your enemies shall become like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones as chaff which blows away; and it shall happen in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 30:13

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

Isaiah 47:11

Therefore, evil shall come upon you, which you shall not know from where it rises. And disaster shall fall upon you, for which you shall not be able to atone. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.

Isaiah 47:9

but these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness because of the multitude of your sorceries and for the great abundance of your enchantments.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as today, only more so.”

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when He appoints over you those you yourself had taught to be companions to you? Shall not sorrows take hold of you, as a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was nothing good; and for the time of healing, but behold, trouble!

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in labor!

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, “Ah, woe is me, for my soul is wearied because of murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard the report of it; our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pain as of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 8:11

For they have healed the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

Ezekiel 13:10

It is surely because they have seduced My people, saying, “Peace,” when there was no peace. And when anyone builds up a wall, they daub it with whitewash.

Hosea 13:13

The pains of childbirth come for him. He is an unwise son, for he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.

Nahum 1:10

Because they are like interwoven thorns and as drunkards imbibing, they are consumed like completely dry stubble.

Matthew 23:33

“You serpents! You generation of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

John 16:21

When a woman is giving birth, she has pain, because her hour has come. But as soon as she delivers the child, she no longer remembers the anguish for joy that a child is born into the world.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers, marvel and perish! For I will perform a work in your days which you will never believe, even if someone declares it to you.’ ”

Deuteronomy 29:19

and it happens that, when he hears the words of this covenant, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” thus destroying the watered ground with the dry.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They shall be punished with eternal destruction, isolated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven; to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of the righteous ones made complete;

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;

Judges 8:11

Gideon went up on the route of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the camp while the army was off guard.