Matthew 24:39

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And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.

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  • Prov 24:12 : 12 If you say,“But we did not know about this,” won’t the one who evaluates hearts discern it? Won’t the one who guards your life realize and repay each person according to his deeds?
  • Isa 44:18-19 : 18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern. 19 No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’
  • Matt 24:37 : 37 For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 They will demolish you– you and your children within your walls– and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
  • Matt 13:13-15 : 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand. 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend. 15 For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge.
  • Isa 42:25 : 25 So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.
  • Judg 20:34 : 34 Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah– the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.
  • Prov 23:35 : 35 You will say,“They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 24:33-38
    6 verses
    86%

    33So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door.

    34I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

    35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

    36Be Ready!“But as for that day and hour no one knows it– not even the angels in heaven– except the Father alone.

    37For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

    38For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

  • Luke 17:26-31
    6 verses
    81%

    26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

    27People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

    28Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

    29but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

    30It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

    31On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

  • Matt 24:40-44
    5 verses
    81%

    40Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left.

    41There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.

    42“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

    43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

    44Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

  • Luke 12:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

    40You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

  • Matt 24:48-50
    3 verses
    76%

    48But if that evil slave should say to himself,‘My master is staying away a long time,’

    49and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards,

    50then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,

  • Matt 25:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12But he replied,‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!’

    13Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

  • Luke 21:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34Be Ready!“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

    35For it will overtake all who live on the face of the whole earth.

  • Mark 13:32-36
    5 verses
    74%

    32Be Ready!“But as for that day or hour no one knows it– neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son– except the Father.

    33Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.

    34It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

    35Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return– whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn–

    36or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.

  • Matt 24:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26So then, if someone says to you,‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.

    27For just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

  • Matt 24:30
    73%

    30Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

  • Luke 12:46
    73%

    46then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

  • Mark 13:26
    72%

    26Then everyone will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds with great power and glory.

  • 1 Thess 5:2
    71%

    2For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.

  • Matt 24:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

    17The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,

    18and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

    19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

  • Luke 21:27
    71%

    27Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory.

  • Luke 17:24
    71%

    24For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

  • Matt 25:10
    70%

    10But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

  • Luke 17:34
    70%

    34I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.

  • Eccl 9:12
    70%

    12Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare– just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.

  • Mark 13:29
    70%

    29So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, right at the door.

  • Matt 7:27
    69%

    27The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”

  • Matt 24:21
    69%

    21For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.