Matthew 24:8
New International Version
All these are the beginning of birth pains.

New Living Translation
But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.

English Standard Version
All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

Berean Standard Bible
All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Berean Literal Bible
And all these are the beginning of birth pains.

King James Bible
All these are the beginning of sorrows.

New King James Version
All these are the beginning of sorrows.

New American Standard Bible
But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.

NASB 1995
“But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

NASB 1977
“But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

Legacy Standard Bible
But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.

Amplified Bible
But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish and the time of unprecedented trouble].

Christian Standard Bible
All these events are the beginning of labor pains.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

American Standard Version
But all these things are the beginning of travail.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But all these things are the beginning of sorrows.

Contemporary English Version
But this is just the beginning of troubles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

English Revised Version
But all these things are the beginning of travail.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All of these are only the beginning pains [of the end].

Good News Translation
All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.

International Standard Version
But all these things are only the beginning of the birth pains."

Literal Standard Version
and all these [are the] beginning of travails;

Majority Standard Bible
All these are the beginning of birth pains.

New American Bible
All these are the beginning of the labor pains.

NET Bible
All these things are the beginning of birth pains.

New Revised Standard Version
all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

New Heart English Bible
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

Webster's Bible Translation
All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Weymouth New Testament
but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.

World English Bible
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

Young's Literal Translation
and all these are the beginning of sorrows;

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Context
Signs of the End of the Age
7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains. 9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.…

Cross References
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.

Mark 13:8
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

Luke 21:12
But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.

James 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.


Treasury of Scripture

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Leviticus 26:18-29
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins…

Deuteronomy 28:59
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Isaiah 9:12,17,21
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still…

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Matthew 24
1. Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple;
3. what and how great calamities shall be before it;
29. the signs of his coming to judgment.
36. And because that day and hour are unknown,
42. we ought to watch like good servants, expecting our Master's coming.














(8) The beginning of sorrows.--The words mean strictly, the beginning of travail pangs. The troubles through which the world passes are thought of as issuing in a "new birth"--the "regeneration" of Matthew 19:28. So St. Paul speaks of the whole creation as "travailing in pain together" (Romans 8:22). So a time of national suffering and perplexity is one in which "the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth" (Isaiah 37:3).

Verse 8. - Beginning of sorrows; ὠδίνων: labour pangs, travailings. The metaphor often occurs (see Isaiah 26:17; Jeremiah 13:21; Hosea 13:13, etc). These great events are called "labour pangs" because they usher in the new creation, "the regeneration" spoken of in Matthew 19:28 (see note there). St. Paul writes (Romans 8:22), "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." The tribulations and calamities which preceded and accompanied the overthrow of the Jewish polity are a sign and warning of the great and universal woes Which shall herald the day of judgment. Jewish writings speak of "the sorrows of Messiah," distresses, wars, famine, dissension, etc., which should herald his advent, and Christ may have used the popular opinion, true as far as it went, as a vehicle for conveying the further truth, that the coming age would be produced amid terrible agonies of men, peoples, and nature.

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Greek
All
πάντα (panta)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

these [are]
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

[the] beginning
ἀρχὴ (archē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 746: From archomai; a commencement, or chief.

of birth pains.
ὠδίνων (ōdinōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 5604: The pain of childbirth, acute pain, severe agony, a snare. Akin to odune; a pang or throe, especially of childbirth.


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