Matthew 24:8 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁸ All these are the beginning of birth-pains.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But all these things are the beginning of travail.

Common English Bible

⁸ But all these things are just the beginning of the sufferings associated with the end.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But all these things are just the beginning of the sorrows.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Matthew 24:8 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 10:4

Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Isaiah 9:12

Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Isaiah 9:21

Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh; together they will turn against Judah. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Hosea 13:13

Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.

Mark 13:8

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth-pains.

Luke 21:12

‘But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

Deuteronomy 28:59

the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety’, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

James 5:1

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.