1 Thessalonians 5:3

New English Translation

Now when they are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

Cross References

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

Job 24:23

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

Psalm 48:6

Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

Psalm 55:15

May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

Psalm 69:22

May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

Proverbs 29:1

The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

Isaiah 20:6

At that time those who live on this coast will say, ‘Look what has happened to our source of hope to whom we fled for help, expecting to be rescued from the king of Assyria! How can we escape now?’”

Isaiah 29:5

But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.

Isaiah 30:13

So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

Isaiah 47:11

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

Isaiah 47:9

Both of these will come upon you suddenly, in one day! You will lose your children and be widowed. You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, despite your many incantations and your numerous amulets.

Isaiah 56:12

Each one says, ‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when the Lord appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

Jeremiah 14:19

Then I said, “Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.

Jeremiah 22:23

You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.

Jeremiah 4:31

In fact, I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, reaching out for help, saying, “I am done in! My life is ebbing away before these murderers!”

Jeremiah 6:14

They offer only superficial help for the harm my people have suffered. They say, ‘Everything will be all right!’ But everything is not all right!

Jeremiah 6:24

The people cry out, “We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!

Jeremiah 8:11

They offer only superficial help for the hurt my dear people have suffered. They say, “Everything will be all right!” But everything is not all right!

Ezekiel 13:10

“‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash.

Hosea 13:13

The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!

Nahum 1:10

Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

John 16:21

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”

Deuteronomy 29:19

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

Hebrews 12:23

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,

Judges 8:11

Gideon went up the road of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army.