Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 3 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. 4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the Day should overtake you like a thief.
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Cross References
Luke 21:34-35
And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,
Luke 17:26-30
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it also shall be in the days of the Son of Man.
Hebrews 2:3
how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him;
Exodus 15:9-10
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them, I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Deuteronomy 29:19
and it happens when he hears the words of this curse, that he shall bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to snatch away the drunken with the thirsty.
Joshua 8:20-22
And the men of Ai looked behind them and saw. And, behold, the smoke of the city went up into the sky, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. And the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.
Judges 18:27-28
And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and feeling safe. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
Judges 20:41-42
And the men of Israel turned again, and the men of Benjamin were amazed. For they saw that evil had touched them.
2 Chronicles 32:19-21
And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of the hands of man.
Psalm 10:11-13
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever!
Psalm 48:6
Fear took hold on them there, and pain, like a woman in labor.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin.
Proverbs 29:1
A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.
Isaiah 21:3-4
Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing.
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
Isaiah 43:6-9
I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth;
Isaiah 56:12
They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.
Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion's daughter, gasping and spreading her hands, saying, Woe to me now! For my soul faints because of murderers.
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when he comes to punish you? For you have taught them to be rulers over you for a head. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in travail?
Jeremiah 22:23
O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?
Daniel 5:3-6
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, and his rulers, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
Nahum 1:10
For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like stubble fully dry.
Matthew 24:37-39
But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man.
Acts 12:22-23
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god and not of a man!
Acts 13:41
"Behold, you despisers, and marvel, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare it to you."
Hebrews 12:23
to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust them down into Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.
Revelation 18:7-8
As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all.
Hosea 13:13
The pains of a woman in travail shall come to him. He is an unwise son; for he cannot stand still in the time of the breaking forth of sons.
Micah 4:9-10
Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like one giving birth.
Matthew 23:33
Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?