Matthew 24:37 Cross References - Goodspeed

³⁷ For just as it was in the time of Noah, it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

³⁹ and knew nothing about it until the flood came and destroyed them all, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

²⁶ In the time of the Son of Man it will be just as it was in the time of Noah. ²⁷ People went on eating, drinking, marrying, and being married up to the very day that Noah got into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

⁷ Faith led Noah, when he was warned by God of things no one then saw, in obedience to the warning to build an ark in which to save his family, and by such faith he condemned the world, and came to possess that uprightness which faith produces.

²⁰ who had once been disobedient, when in Noah's time God in his patience waited for the ark to be made ready, in which a few people, eight in all, were brought safely through the water. ²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

⁵ and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood upon the godless world;

⁶ by which also that world was destroyed, through being flooded with water.