1 Thessalonians 5:3

The Sudden Arrival Of The Day Of The Lord

² for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night. 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. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief,

Birth Pangs

Destruction Comes

By No Means

Not At All

Peace And Security

No

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?