Matthew 24:38 Cross References - Anderson

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

³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.

⁴⁵ But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to strike the men-servants and the maid-servants, and to eat and to drink, and to be drunk;

¹⁸ And they all, with one consent, began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a farm, and I must go and see it; I pray you, have me excused. ¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them; I pray you, have me excused. ²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and, for this reason, I can not come.

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day in which Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ In like manner also, as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become heavy with reveling and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day come upon you when you look not for it.

¹³ Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in. contention and in envy: ¹⁴ but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

²⁹ Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not; ³⁰ and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not: ³¹ and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.