1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Cross References (33)

  • Luke 21:34–35 (31)

    But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that

  • Matthew 24:37–39 (24)

    As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

  • Luke 17:26–30 (17)

    Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

  • Revelation 18:7–8 (13)

    As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart s

  • 2 Thessalonians 1:9 (8)

    They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

  • Hebrews 2:3 (8)

    how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed

  • Psalms 73:18–20 (8)

    Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

  • Daniel 5:3–6 (7)

    Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king d

  • Jeremiah 4:31 (7)

    For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zio

  • Psalms 10:11–13 (7)

    He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

  • 2 Peter 2:4 (7)

    For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness t

  • Proverbs 29:1 (7)

    A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

  • Jeremiah 22:23 (6)

    O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a wom

  • Jeremiah 6:24 (6)

    We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  • Isaiah 43:6–9 (6)

    I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daug

  • Acts 13:41 (6)

    ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone

  • Isaiah 56:12 (6)

    “Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

  • Judges 18:27–28 (5)

    After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they stru

  • Nahum 1:10 (5)

    For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

  • Isaiah 21:3–4 (5)

    Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I

  • Psalms 48:6 (5)

    Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

  • Judges 20:41–42 (4)

    Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had

  • Hebrews 12:23 (4)

    in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to

  • Exodus 15:9–10 (4)

    The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw

  • Joshua 8:20–22 (4)

    When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any d

  • Micah 4:9–10 (4)

    Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman

  • Hosea 13:13 (4)

    Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of

  • Deuteronomy 29:19 (4)

    because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, e

  • Isaiah 30:13 (4)

    this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an i

  • 2 Chronicles 32:19–21 (4)

    They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of huma

  • Jeremiah 13:21 (4)

    What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as t

  • Matthew 23:33 (3)

    You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

  • Acts 12:22–23 (3)

    And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”