Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.
New American Standard Bible
While they are saying, “
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction
International Standard Version
When people say, "There is peace and security," destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.
A Conservative Version
For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].
An Understandable Version
[For] when people are saying, "Peace," and "Safety," then [is when] destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape it.
Anderson New Testament
for when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as the pains of birth upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
Bible in Basic English
When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
Common New Testament
While people are saying, "Peace and safety," then destruction will come upon them suddenly as labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
Daniel Mace New Testament
whilst they flatter themselves with peace and safety, destruction shall fall upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they shall not escape.
Darby Translation
When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Godbey New Testament
When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman in gestation; and they can not escape.
Goodspeed New Testament
When people say, "What peace and security!" then suddenly destruction will be upon them, like birth-pains upon a woman about to give birth to a child, and there will be no escape.
John Wesley New Testament
When they say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
King James 2000
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
Moffatt New Testament
when 'all's well' and 'all is safe' are on the lips of men, then all of a sudden Destruction is upon them, like pangs on a pregnant woman ??escape there is none.
Montgomery New Testament
While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape.
NET Bible
Now when they are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.
New Heart English Bible
For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
Noyes New Testament
When they are saying, Peace and safety; then doth sudden destruction come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Sawyer New Testament
When they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
The Emphasized Bible
As soon as they begin to say - Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction, - just as the birth-throe unto her that is with child, - and in nowise shall they escape.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction rusheth upon them, as travail on a woman with child, and they shall in no wise escape.
Twentieth Century New Testament
When people are saying 'All is quiet and safe,' it is then that, like birth-pains upon a woman with child, Ruin comes suddenly upon them, and there will be no escape!
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
While they are saying "Peace and safety!" then in a moment destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman who is with child; and escape there is none.
Williams New Testament
When people say, "Such peace and security!" then suddenly destruction falls upon them, like birth pains upon a woman who is about to become a mother, but they shall not escape, no, not at all.
World English Bible
For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
Worrell New Testament
When they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in nowise escape.
Worsley New Testament
And 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
Themes
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Who
Day of the lord » How the day of the lord will come
Destruction » When sudden destruction shall come
Escape » None, from the judgments of God
Eternal » Wicked words of Christ concerning » Other allusions to
Everlasting » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other allusions to
Insecurity of the wicked » The sudden overthrow of sinners
Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other allusions to
Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Often sudden and unexpected
Safety » The time when people shall say peace and safety
The second coming of Christ » The wicked » Shall be surprised by
Self-delusion » Fatal consequences of
Self-delusion » Fatal » consequences of
Sudden destruction » The sudden overthrow of sinners
The counselors of peace » The time when people shall say peace and safety
the future » Punishment future state of the wicked » Other allusions to
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Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 5:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sudden Arrival Of The Day Of The Lord
2 For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes. 3 For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape. 4 And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you.
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Cross References
Luke 21:34-35
And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Luke 17:26-30
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.
Hebrews 2:3
How shall we escape, having neglected such great salvation; which at the beginning taken to be spoken by the Lord, by them having heard was made firm to us;
Exodus 15:9-10
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will enclose, I will divide the spoil: my soul shall be filled with them: I will draw out my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.
Deuteronomy 29:19
And it was in his hearing the words of this oath, and he blessed himself in his heart, saying, Peace shall be to me, if in the hardness of my heart, I shall go to add satiating to thirst:
Joshua 8:20-22
And the men of Ai will turn back behind them and will see, and behold, the smoke of the city went up to the heavens, and there was not with them hands to flee hither and thither: and the people having fled, turned back to the pursuers.
Judges 18:27-28
And they took what Micah made, and the priest which was to him, and they will go to Laish, upon a people quiet and confiding: and they will strike them with the mouth of the sword, and they will burn the city with fire.
Judges 20:41-42
And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin will hasten, for they saw that evil touched upon them.
2 Chronicles 32:19-21
And they will speak against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the land, the work of the hand of man.
Psalm 10:11-13
Saying in his heart, God forgat: he hid his face; not seeing forever.
Psalm 48:6
Trembling seized them there, pain as of her bringing forth.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins.
Proverbs 29:1
A Man of reproofs hardening the neck, shall be suddenly broken, and no healing.
Isaiah 21:3-4
For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeing
Isaiah 30:13
For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment
Isaiah 43:6-9
Say to the north, Thou shalt give, and to the south thou shalt not withhold: bring in my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremities of the earth;
Isaiah 56:12
Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.
Jeremiah 4:31
For I heard. the voice as of her bringing forth, the anguish as of her bearing her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion, she will sigh, she will spread forth her hands, Wo now to me for my soul fainted for those slaying.
Jeremiah 6:24
We heard its report: our hands were relaxed; straits held us, pain as of her bringing forth
Jeremiah 13:21
What wilt thou say when he shall review upon thee? and thou didst teach them the chiefs for head over thee: shall not pains lay hold of thee as a woman bringing forth?
Jeremiah 22:23
Thou dwelling in Lebanon, building a nest in the cedars, how being compassionated in pangs coming to thee the pain as of her bringing forth.
Daniel 5:3-6
At that time they brought the vessels of gold that were brought forth from the temple of the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and in them they drank, the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines.
Nahum 1:10
For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.
Matthew 24:37-39
And as the days of Noe, so shall be the arrival of the Son of man.
Acts 12:22-23
And the people called aloud, The voice of God, and not of man.
Acts 13:41
See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, which ye would not believe if any recount to you.
Hebrews 12:23
To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected,
2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;
Revelation 18:7-8
As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.
Hosea 13:13
The pains of her bringing forth shall come to him: he a son not wise; for now he shall not stand in the breaking forth of sons.
Micah 4:9-10
Now wherefore wilt thou cry out with an outcry? is no king in thee? or thy counselor perished? for pain laid hold of thee as she bringing forth.
Matthew 23:33
Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?