Matthew 24:39

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

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  • Prov 24:12 : 12 When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.
  • Isa 44:18-19 : 18 They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely. 19 And none doth turn `it' back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, `Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.'
  • Matt 24:37 : 37 and as the days of Noah -- so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;
  • John 3:20 : 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I -- I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare `it' to you.'
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'
  • Matt 13:13-15 : 13 `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand, 14 and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, 15 for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.
  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.
  • Isa 42:25 : 25 And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!
  • Judg 20:34 : 34 And they come in over against Gibeah -- ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel -- and the battle `is' grievous, and they have not known that the evil is striking against them.
  • Prov 23:35 : 35 `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 24:33-38
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    33so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh -- at the doors.

    34Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

    35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

    36`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only;

    37and as the days of Noah -- so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

    38for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

  • Luke 17:26-31
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    81%

    26`And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

    27they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

    28in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

    29and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

    30`According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

    31in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

  • Matt 24:40-44
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    40Then two men shall be in the field, the one is received, and the one is left;

    41two women shall be grinding in the mill, one is received, and one is left.

    42`Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

    43and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

    44because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

  • Luke 12:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39`And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

    40and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

  • Matt 24:48-50
    3 verses
    76%

    48`And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

    49and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

    50the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

  • Matt 25:12-13
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    12and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

    13`Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

  • Luke 17:36
    74%

    36two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'

  • Luke 21:34-35
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    74%

    34`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

    35for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

  • Mark 13:32-36
    5 verses
    74%

    32`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers who are in the heaven, not even the Son -- except the Father.

    33Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;

    34as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

    35watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning;

    36lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

  • Matt 24:26-27
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    74%

    26`If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe;

    27for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

  • Matt 24:30
    73%

    30and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory;

  • Luke 12:46
    73%

    46the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for `him', and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

  • Mark 13:26
    72%

    26`And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in clouds with much power and glory,

  • 1 Thess 5:2
    71%

    2for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

  • Matt 24:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

    17he on the house-top -- let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

    18and he in the field -- let him not turn back to take his garments.

    19`And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

  • Luke 21:27
    71%

    27`And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;

  • Luke 17:24
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    24for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one `part' under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

  • Matt 25:10
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    10`And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

  • Luke 17:34
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    34`I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

  • Mark 13:29
    70%

    29so ye, also, when these ye may see coming to pass, ye know that it is nigh, at the doors.

  • Matt 7:27
    69%

    27and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

  • Matt 24:21
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    21for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.