1 Thessalonians 5:3
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.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
4But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:19and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
Judges 8:11And Gideon went up by the way of those who dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the army, for the army was confident.
Judges 20:41And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that evil had come upon them.
Job 24:23[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.
Psalms 48:6Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
Proverbs 29:1He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6
The Coming of Christ. ( a. d. 51.) 1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 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. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we… Read the whole commentary →