1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
2For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
4But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless 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 8:11Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.
Judges 20:41The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
Job 24:23God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
Psalms 48:6Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
Proverbs 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no 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 →