1 Thessalonians 5:3

Weymouth NT

While they are saying »Peace and safety!« then in a moment destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman who is with child; and escape there is none.

Cross References

Matthew 23:33

O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?

John 16:21

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

Acts 13:41

`Behold, you despisers, be astonished and perish, because I am carrying on a work in your time–a work which you will utterly refuse to believe, though it be fully declared to you.'«

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His glorious majesty,

Hebrews 12:23

to the great festal gathering and Church of the first-born, whose names are recorded in Heaven, and to a Judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we are indifferent to a salvation as great as that now offered to us? This, after having first of all been announced by the Lord Himself, had its truth made sure to us by those who heard Him,

2 Peter 2:4

For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement.