1 Thessalonians 5:3 - Revised Standard Version

³ When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

Common English Bible

³ When they are saying, “There is peace and security,” at that time sudden destruction will attack them, like labor pains start with a pregnant woman, and they definitely won’t escape.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For when they will say, "Peace and security!" then destruction will suddenly overwhelm them, like the labor pains of a woman with child, and they will not escape.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin!

Psalm 48:6

trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.

Psalm 55:15

Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.

Psalm 69:22

Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;

Isaiah 47:11

But evil shall come upon you, for which you cannot atone; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate; and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.”

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Does thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in travail!”

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in travail, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 8:11

They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, yea, because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace; and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets daub it with whitewash;

Hosea 13:13

The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

Nahum 1:10

Like entangled thorns they are consumed, like dry stubble.

Matthew 23:33

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

John 16:21

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

Acts 13:41

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I do a deed in your days, a deed you will never believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

Deuteronomy 29:19

one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Hebrews 12:23

and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment;

Judges 8:11

And Gideon went up by the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the army; for the army was off its guard.