1 Thessalonians 5:3
Whenever they say "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of {a pregnant woman}, and they will not possibly escape.
Luke 21:34-35
"But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who will pay the penalty [of] eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
Luke 17:26-30
And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man--
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape [if we] neglect so great a salvation which had [its] beginning [when it] was spoken through the Lord [and] was confirmed to us by those who heard,
Exodus 15:9-10
[The] enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder, my desire will be full [of] them, I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.'
Deuteronomy 29:19
And then when he hears the words of this oath, then {he will assure himself} in his heart, {saying}, '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},' thereby destroying the well-watered [land] [along] with the parched.
Joshua 8:20-22
Then the men of Ai looked behind them, and they saw smoke from the city rising to the sky; {they had no power to flee this way or that}, and the people fleeing the wilderness turned around to the pursuers.
Judges 18:27-28
And they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and {they put them to the sword} and burned the city with fire.
Judges 20:41-42
And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed because they saw that disaster was {closing in} on them.
2 Chronicles 32:19-21
And they spoke about the God of Jerusalem as about the gods of the peoples of the earth, the works of the hands of humankind.
Psalm 10:11-13
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."
Psalm 48:6
Trembling seized them there-- pain as of a woman in labor.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
Proverbs 29:1
A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck-- suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing.
Isaiah 21:3-4
Therefore my loins are filled [with] anguish; pangs have seized me, like [the] pangs of a woman giving birth. I am {too bent to hear}, I am {too dismayed to see}.
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks} suddenly, [in] an instant.
Isaiah 43:6-9
I will say to the north, 'Give!' and to [the] south, 'You must not withhold!' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the end of the earth--
Isaiah 56:12
"Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse [with] intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, {very great indeed}."
Jeremiah 4:31
For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like [a woman who] bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers."
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard news of it, our hands grow slack, anxiety has grasped us, pain as a [woman who] gives birth.
Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when he sets over you-- and you have taught them--allies as head over you? Will not labor pains take hold of you, like a woman giving birth?
Jeremiah 22:23
Inhabitants of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come to you, fear and pain as the [woman who] gives birth.
Daniel 5:3-6
Then they brought in the vessels of gold that they took from the temple, the house of God that [was] in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines drank from them.
Nahum 1:10
For like entangled thorns, and like their drink which is drunk, they will be consumed like fully dry chaff.
Matthew 24:37-39
For just as the days of Noah [were], so the coming of the Son of Man will be.
Acts 12:22-23
But the people began to call out loudly, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"
Acts 13:41
'Look, you scoffers, and be astonished and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would never believe [even] if someone were to tell [it] to you.'"
Hebrews 12:23
and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous [people] made perfect,
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held [them] captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness [and] handed [them] over to be kept for judgment,
Revelation 18:7-8
As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her so much torment and mourning, because in her heart she said, 'I sit as a queen, and am not a widow, and I will never see mourning!'
Hosea 13:13
The labor pains of childbirth come for him; he [is] an unwise son because [at the] proper time, he does not present himself {at the mouth of the womb}.
Micah 4:9-10
So then, why do you shout a loud shout? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?
Matthew 23:33
Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?