1 Thessalonians 5:3

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1 Thessalonians 5:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.

2 For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

3 While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

4 But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.

5 For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

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Deuteronomy 29:19

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

Judges 18:27

After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.

Judges 18:28

There was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.

Psalms 10:11

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

Psalms 10:12

Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

Psalms 10:13

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Isaiah 21:4

My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

Daniel 5:3

Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

Daniel 5:4

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Daniel 5:5

At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

Daniel 5:6

his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

Nahum 1:10

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Matthew 24:37

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:38

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

Matthew 24:39

And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:26

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

Luke 17:27

People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:28

It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

Luke 17:29

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:30

It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

Luke 21:34

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Luke 21:35

For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

Exodus 15:10

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Joshua 8:20

When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

Joshua 8:21

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

Joshua 8:22

Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.

Judges 20:42

So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.

2 Chronicles 32:19

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.

2 Chronicles 32:20

In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer,

2 Chronicles 32:21

and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

Psalms 73:18

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Psalms 73:19

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Psalms 73:20

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

Proverbs 29:1

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

Isaiah 30:13

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

Acts 12:22

And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

Acts 12:23

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

Revelation 18:7

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

Revelation 18:8

Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Psalms 48:6

Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Isaiah 43:7

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

Isaiah 43:8

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

Isaiah 43:9

All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

Hosea 13:13

Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.

Micah 4:9

Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

Micah 4:10

Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

Matthew 23:33

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

Hebrews 12:23

in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,