Matthew 24:39

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Prov 24:12 : 12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" Doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • Isa 44:18-19 : 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
  • Matt 24:37 : 37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  • Matt 13:13-15 : 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand. 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive: 15 For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.'
  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
  • Isa 42:25 : 25 Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he didn't know; and it burned him, yet he didn't lay it to heart.
  • Judg 20:34 : 34 There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.
  • Prov 23:35 : 35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

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  • 86%

    33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

    34 Most assuredly I tell you, this generation{The word for "generation" (genea) can also be translated as "race."} will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

    35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

    36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

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

    38 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 ark,

  • 81%

    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 ark, 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.

    30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

    31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

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

    41 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

    42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

    43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

    44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

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    39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

    40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

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    48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'

    49 and begins to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken,

    50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,

  • 76%

    12 But he answered, 'Most assuredly I tell you, I don't know you.'

    13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

  • 36 {Some Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field, the one taken, and the other left."}

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    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.

    35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

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    32 But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

    33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

    34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

    35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

    36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

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    26 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' don't believe it.

    27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

  • 30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

  • 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

  • 26 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

  • 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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    17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.

    18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

    19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

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

  • 24 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

  • 10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

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

  • 12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

  • 29 even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.

  • 27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

  • 21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

  • 12 So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.