Matthew 24:38 Cross References - MNT

³⁸ For just as in the days before the deluge they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the very day when Noah entered the ark,

³⁰ "For in the resurrection men do not marry, nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven.

¹⁹ "'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'

⁴⁵ "But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,

¹⁸ "And they all, without exception, proceeded to excuse themselves. The first told him. 'I have bought a field, and must needs go and see it. Pray have me excused.' ¹⁹ "The second said: 'I have bought five yolk of oxen and am on my way to try them. I pray that you will have me excused.' ²⁰ "'I have taken a wife,' said the another, 'and for that reason I am unable to come.'

²⁶ "And this was in the time of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of man. ²⁷ "Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ "The same was true in the time of Lot; they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;

³⁴ "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap.

¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy; ¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

²⁹ Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none, ³⁰ let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, ³¹ and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.