Matthew 24:38 Cross References - Murdock

³⁸ For as, before the flood, they were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving to husbands, up to the day that Noah entered the ark,

³⁰ For in the resurrection of the dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels of God in heaven.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: My soul, thou hast good things in abundance, which are stored up for many years; take thy ease; eat, drink, and live in pleasure.

⁴⁵ But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite the servants and the maidens of his lord; and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunk;

¹⁸ And they all to a man, began to excuse themselves. The first said to him: I have bought a field, and am constrained to go out and see it. I pray thee, allow me to be excused. ¹⁹ Another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to inspect them. I pray thee, allow me to be excused. ²⁰ Another said: I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They ate and drank, they took wives and were given to husbands, until the day that Noah entered the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed every one. ²⁸ And again, as it was in the days of Lot; they ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and built.

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be, at no time, stupefied by gluttony and ebriety and worldly care; and so that day come upon you unawares.

¹³ And let us walk decorously, as in daylight; not in merriment, nor in drunkenness, nor in impurity of the bed, nor in envy and strife. ¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with our Lord Jesus Messiah: and be not thoughtful about your flesh, for the indulgence of appetites.

²⁹ And this I say, my Brethren, that the time to come is short; so that they who have wives, should be as if they had none; ³⁰ and they who weep, as if they wept not; and they who rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they who buy, as if they acquired not; ³¹ and those occupied with this world, not going beyond the just using: for the fashion of this world is passing away.