1 Thessalonians 5:3

Tree of Life Version

When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.

Cross References

Job 15:21

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

Job 24:23

He allows him to rest in a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin come upon him by surprise. Let the net he hid entangle himself —into that same pit let him fall.

Psalm 48:6

They saw, then they were astounded, they fled in terror.

Psalm 55:15

Together we enjoyed great fellowship. We used to walk with the throng in the House of God.

Psalm 69:22

They put gall in my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Proverbs 29:1

One who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed— without remedy.

Isaiah 20:6

Then the inhabitants of the coastland will say in that day, ‘Look, such is our hope—there we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”

Isaiah 29:5

Yet the multitude of your foes will become like fine dust, and the multitude of the terrifying like chaff that passes away. It will happen in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this sin will be to you like a crack bulging in a high wall, about to fall— its collapse comes suddenly, in an instant!

Isaiah 47:11

But calamity will come upon you. You won’t know how to charm it away. Disaster will fall on you, for which you cannot atone. Catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things will come upon you in a moment, in one day— loss of children and widowhood— they will come upon you in full measure in spite of your many sorceries and your many spells.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let’s get wine, let’s guzzle strong drink. Tomorrow will be like today, only even better!”

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say, when He sets up the allies you cultivated for yourself, over you as head? Will not labor pains seize you, like a woman in travail?

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for shalom, but nothing good came, and for a time of healing, but suddenly, terror!

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come on you, pain like a woman in travail!

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry like one in labor, the anguish of one giving birth to her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands saying, “Oy , now to me! For my soul faints before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:14

They healed the wound of My people superficially, saying ‘Shalom, shalom!’ when there is no shalom.”

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard of their fame. Our hands hang limp; anguish has gripped us, pain like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 8:11

They heal the fracture of the daughter of My people by treating it superficially— saying, ‘Shalom, shalom,’ when there is no shalom.

Ezekiel 13:10

Precisely because they have led My people astray saying, ‘Shalom’ when there is no shalom, they build a weak wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash.

Hosea 13:13

Pains of birth come on him. He is not a wise son. When the time comes, he should not delay at the opening of the womb.

Nahum 1:10

For even like tangled thorns they will be consumed, or like drunkards who are drunk, or like stubble that is fully dry.

Matthew 23:33

O snakes, you brood of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?

John 16:21

“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers, be amazed and vanish away. For I am doing a work in your days— a work you will never believe, even if someone tells it to you in detail.’”

Deuteronomy 29:19

Adonai will be unwilling to forgive him. For then the anger of Adonai and His jealousy will smoke against that person. So all the oath that is written in this scroll will settle on him, and Adonai will blot out his name from under the heavens.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will pay the price of eternal ruin, away from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power—

Hebrews 12:23

and to the assembly of the firstborn who are written in a scroll in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous ones made perfect,

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was first spoken through the Lord and confirmed to us by those who heard.

2 Peter 2:4

For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into Sheol. He put them in chains of gloomy darkness, to be held until the judgment.

Judges 8:11

Now Gideon went up by the road of the tent dwellers on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and ambushed the camp when it was off guard.