Matthew 24:38

World English Bible (2000)

For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

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  • Rom 13:13-14 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; 30 and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn't possess; 31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
  • Gen 7:7 : 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 37 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
  • 1 Sam 30:16-17 : 16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. 17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth: 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die." 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  • Ezek 16:49-50 : 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
  • Amos 6:3-6 : 3 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
  • Matt 22:30 : 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
  • Luke 12:19 : 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
  • Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
  • Luke 14:18-20 : 18 They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.' 19 "Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.' 20 "Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'
  • Luke 17:26-28 : 26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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  • Luke 17:26-29
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    26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

    27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

    28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

    29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

  • Matt 24:37
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    37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

  • Matt 24:39
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    39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

  • Gen 7:9-13
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    9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

    10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

    11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

    12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

  • Gen 7:4-7
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    4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

    5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

    6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

    7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

    24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

  • Gen 7:15-18
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    15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

    16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

    17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 8:15-18
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    15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

    16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

    17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

    18 Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

  • Gen 6:13
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    13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

  • Gen 8:2
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    2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

  • Gen 6:18-19
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    18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

    19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

  • Gen 8:6
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    6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

  • 1 Pet 3:20
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    20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

  • Gen 7:1
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    1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

  • Gen 6:21-22
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    21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

    22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

  • Gen 9:28-29
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    28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

    29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

  • Gen 9:20
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    20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

  • Gen 6:11
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    11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

  • Gen 6:8
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    8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.