1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (A)sudden destruction will come upon them (B)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Luke 21:34-35
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Matthew 24:37-39
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37 (A)For as were the days of Noah, (B)so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 (C)For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, (D)marrying and giving in marriage, until (E)the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, (F)so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
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Revelation 18:7-8
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7 (A)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
(B)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
and mourning I shall never see.’
8 For this reason her plagues will come (C)in a single day,
death and mourning and famine,
and (D)she will be burned up with fire;
for (E)mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
Luke 17:26-30
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26 (A)Just as it was in the days of (B)Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 (C)They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of (D)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 (E)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be (F)on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
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Daniel 5:3-6
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3 Then they brought in (A)the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine and (B)praised the (C)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
5 (D)Immediately (E)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw (F)the hand as it wrote. 6 (G)Then the king's color changed, (H)and his thoughts alarmed him; (I)his limbs gave way, and (J)his knees knocked together.
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2 Thessalonians 1:9
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9 They will suffer the punishment of (A)eternal destruction, (B)away from[a] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
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- 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Or destruction that comes from
Jeremiah 4:31
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31 For I heard (A)a cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
(B)stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”
Proverbs 29:1
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29 (A)He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,
will suddenly be (B)broken (C)beyond healing.
Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when they set as head over you
those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
(A)Will not pangs take hold of you
like those of a woman in labor?
Isaiah 43:6-9
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6 I will say to the north, Give up,
and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring (A)my sons from afar
and (B)my daughters from the end of the earth,
7 everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”
8 Bring out (C)the people who are blind, yet have eyes,
who are deaf, yet have ears!
9 (D)All the nations gather together,
and the peoples assemble.
Who among them can declare this,
and show us the former things?
Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,
and let them hear and say, It is true.
Psalm 73:18-20
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Psalm 10:11-13
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2 Peter 2:4
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4 For if God did not spare (A)angels when they sinned, but (B)cast them into hell[a] and committed them to chains[b] of gloomy darkness (C)to be kept until the judgment;
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- 2 Peter 2:4 Greek Tartarus
- 2 Peter 2:4 Some manuscripts pits
Jeremiah 22:23
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23 O inhabitant of (A)Lebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
(B)pain as of a woman in labor!”
Jeremiah 6:24
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24 We have heard the report of it;
(A)our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
(B)pain as of a woman in labor.
Psalm 48:6
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Acts 13:41
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41 (A)“‘Look, you scoffers,
be astounded and perish;
for I am doing a work in your days,
a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”
Nahum 1:10
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10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
(B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Isaiah 56:12
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12 (A)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(B)and tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”
Isaiah 21:3-4
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3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(A)pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
(B)the twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
Judges 18:27-28
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27 But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people (A)quiet and unsuspecting, and (B)struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire. 28 And there was no deliverer because it was (C)far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to (D)Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
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Hebrews 12:23
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23 and to (A)the assembly[a] of the firstborn who are (B)enrolled in heaven, and to (C)God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
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- Hebrews 12:23 Or church
Micah 4:9-10
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9 Now why do you cry aloud?
(A)Is there no king in you?
(B)Has your counselor perished,
that (C)pain seized you like a woman in labor?
10 (D)Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for (E)now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you (F)shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
(G)there the Lord will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
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- Micah 4:10 Or push
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