Mark 13:8
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.
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Cross references
- Psalm 48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Matthew 24:8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
- Isaiah 37:3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.