Matthew 24:8 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

But all these things are the beginning of the labor pains.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].

American Standard Version (1901)

But all these things are the beginning of travail.

Common English Bible

But all these things are just the beginning of the sufferings associated with the end.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But all these things are just the beginning of the sorrows.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Matthew 24:8 Tagairtí Cros

Mark 13:8

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, along with famines and riots. These are the beginning of the labor pains.

Luke 21:12

But before all these things take place, they will arrest you and persecute you. They will deliver you up to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will certainly not escape.

James 5:1

Come now, you who are rich, weep and howl over the miseries that are coming upon you.