Matthew 24:8
All this, however, will be but the beginning of the birth pangs!
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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!
1 Peter 4:17-18
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the House of God; and, if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?
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