Matthew 24:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

and all these [are] the beginning of sorrows;

English ASV

But all these things are the beginning of travail.

English Amplified

All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

All these are the beginning of birth pains.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

All these events are the beginning of labor pains.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

But all these [are the] beginning of throes.

English EASY 2024

All those things will be like the first pains that a mother has before her baby is born.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

These things are only the beginning of troubles, like the first pains of a woman giving birth.

All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.

English God's Word - GW 1995

All of these are only the beginning pains {of the end}.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

English KJV 1611

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

All these are the beginning of the labor pains.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

All these things are the beginning of birth pains.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

All these are the beginning of birth pains.

English NIV

All these are the beginning of birth pains.

English NKJ 1982

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

English NLT

But all this will be only the beginning of the horrors to come.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

This is how the birth pains of the new age will begin!”

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

But all this will be only the beginning of the horrors to come.

English Tyndale 1537

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Matthew 24:8 — Compare Translations