1 Thessalonians 5:3

The Scriptures 1998

For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.

Cross References

Job 15:21

A frightening sound is in his ears; in peace a destroyer comes to him.

Job 24:23

He gives him safety, and he leans on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin come upon him unawares, And let his net that he hid catch himself; Let him fall in it, into ruin.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in labour,

Psalm 55:15

Let death come upon them; Let them go down into the grave alive, For evil is in their dwellings, in their midst.

Psalm 69:22

Let their table before them become a snare, And a trap to those at ease.

Proverbs 29:1

One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Isaiah 20:6

“And the inhabitant of this coastland shall say in that day, ‘See, such is our expectation, wherever we flee for help to be delivered from the sovereign of Ashshur. And how do we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 29:5

“But the crowd of those strange to you shall be like fine dust, and the crowd of the ruthless ones as chaff blowing away. And it shall be in an instant, suddenly!”

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this crookedness is to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, swiftly.”

Isaiah 47:11

“But evil shall come upon you, you not knowing from where it arises, and trouble fall upon you, you being unable to put it off, and ruin come upon you suddenly, which you know not.

Isaiah 47:9

“Both of these come to you suddenly, in one day: the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in completeness, because of your many witchcrafts, for your numerous great potent spells.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today, even much greater.”

Jeremiah 13:21

What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour?

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You completely rejected Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 22:23

“You who dwell in Leḇ

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the distress as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tsiyon! She bewails herself, she spreads out her hands, saying, “Woe to me, for my being faints because of murderers!”

Jeremiah 6:14

“And they heal the breach of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it, our hands grow weak. Distress has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 8:11

“And they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

Ezekiel 13:10

“Because, yea because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when one is building a wall, see, they are coating it with whitewash!

Hosea 13:13

“Pains of a woman in labour shall come upon him. He is not a wise son, for it is not the time that he should delay at the breaking forth of children.

Nahum 1:10

Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried.

Matthew 23:33

“Serpents, brood of adders! How would you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

John 16:21

“The woman has grief when she is in labour, because her hour has come, but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the affliction, for joy that a man was born into the world.

Acts 13:41

“See, you despisers, marvel and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you would in no way believe if someone were to declare it to you.’ ”

Deuteronomy 29:19

“And it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in order to add drunkenness to thirst.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Master and from the esteem of His strength,

Hebrews 12:23

to the entire gathering and assembly of the first-born having been enrolled in heaven, and to Elohim the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a deliverance, which first began to be spoken by the Master, and was confirmed to us by those that heard,

2 Peter 2:4

For if Elohim did not spare the messengers who sinned, but sent them to Tartaros, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment,

Judges 8:11

And Giḏ