1 Thessalonians 5:3

New Century Version

While people are saying, “We have peace and we are safe,” they will be destroyed quickly. It is like pains that come quickly to a woman having a baby. Those people will not escape.

Cross References

Job 15:21

Terrible sounds fill their ears, and when things seem to be going well, robbers attack them.

Job 24:23

God may let these evil people feel safe, but he is watching their ways.

Psalm 35:8

So let ruin strike them suddenly. Let them be caught in their own nets; let them fall into the pit and die.

Psalm 48:6

Fear took hold of them; they hurt like a woman having a baby.

Psalm 55:15

Let death take away my enemies. Let them die while they are still young because evil lives with them.

Psalm 69:22

Let their own feasts cause their ruin; let their feasts trap them and pay them back.

Proverbs 29:1

Whoever is stubborn after being corrected many times will suddenly be hurt beyond cure.

Isaiah 20:6

People who live near the sea will say, ‘Look at those countries. We trusted them to help us. We ran to them so they would save us from the king of Assyria. So how will we be able to escape?’ ”

Isaiah 29:5

Your many enemies will become like fine dust; the many cruel people will be like chaff that is blown away. Everything will happen very quickly.

Isaiah 30:13

You are guilty of these things. So you will be like a high wall with cracks in it that falls suddenly and breaks into small pieces.

Isaiah 47:11

But troubles will come to you, and you will not know how to stop them. Disaster will fall on you, and you will not be able to keep it away. You will be destroyed quickly; you will not even see it coming.

Isaiah 47:9

Two things will happen to you suddenly, in a single day. You will lose your children and your husband. These things will truly happen to you, in spite of all your magic, in spite of your powerful tricks.

Isaiah 56:12

They say, “Come, let’s drink some wine; let’s drink all the beer we want. And tomorrow we will do this again, or, maybe we will have an even better time.”

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when they appoint as your heads those you had thought were your friends? Won’t you have much pain and trouble, like a woman giving birth to a baby?

Jeremiah 14:19

Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you hate Jerusalem? Why have you hurt us so badly that we cannot be made well again? We hoped for peace, but nothing good has come. We looked for a time of healing, but only terror came.

Jeremiah 22:23

King, you live in your palace, cozy in your rooms of cedar. But when your punishment comes, how you will groan like a woman giving birth to a baby!

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman having a baby, distress like a woman having her first child. It is the sound of Jerusalem gasping for breath. She lifts her hands in prayer and says, “Oh! I am about to faint before my murderers!”

Jeremiah 6:14

They tried to heal my people’s serious injuries as if they were small wounds. They said, ‘It’s all right, it’s all right.’ But really, it is not all right.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the news about that army and are helpless from fear. We are gripped by our pain, like a woman having a baby.

Jeremiah 8:11

They tried to heal my people’s serious injuries as if they were small wounds. They said, “It’s all right, it’s all right.” But really, it is not all right.

Ezekiel 13:10

“ ‘It is because they lead my people the wrong way by saying, “Peace!” when there is no peace. When the people build a weak wall, the prophets cover it with whitewash to make it look strong.

Hosea 13:13

The pain of birth will come for him, but he is like a foolish baby who won’t come out of its mother’s womb.

Nahum 1:10

Those people will be like tangled thorns or like people drunk from their wine; they will be burned up quickly like dry weeds.

Matthew 23:33

“You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! How are you going to escape God’s judgment?

John 16:21

When a woman gives birth to a baby, she has pain, because her time has come. But when her baby is born, she forgets the pain, because she is so happy that a child has been born into the world.

Acts 13:41

‘Listen, you people who doubt! You can wonder, and then die. I will do something in your lifetime that you won’t believe even when you are told about it!’ ”

Deuteronomy 29:19

These are the kind of people who hear these curses but bless themselves, thinking, “We will be safe even though we continue doing what we want to do.” Those people may destroy all of your land, both wet and dry.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

Those people will be punished with a destruction that continues forever. They will be kept away from the Lord and from his great power.

Hebrews 12:23

You have come to the meeting of God’s firstborn children whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people, and to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect.

Hebrews 2:3

So surely we also will be punished if we ignore this great salvation. The Lord himself first told about this salvation, and those who heard him testified it was true.

2 Peter 2:4

When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. He sent them to hell and put them in caves of darkness where they are being held for judgment.

Judges 8:11

Gideon went up the road of those who live in tents east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked the enemy army when they did not expect it.