Matthew 24:38 Cross References - Riverside

³⁸ As in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah went into the ark,

³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither many nor are married, but are like the 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, be merry!'

⁴⁵ But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master will be long in coming,' and begins to strike the men servants and the maids and to eat and drink and get drunk,

¹⁸ But they all began with one mind to make excuse. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field and must go and see it. I beg of you to have me excused.' ¹⁹ Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen and I am going to try them. I beg of you, have me excused.' ²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife and on that account I cannot come.'

²⁶ As it happened in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah went into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Just so it was in the days of Lot; they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

³⁴ Take care that your hearts are not dull through overeating and drinking and the cares of life, so that that day may come on you unexpectedly like a trap.

¹³ Let us live becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sensuality and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for gratifying physical passions.

²⁹ But this I say, brethren: The time is shortened. For what remains let those who have wives be as if they had none, ³⁰ and those who weep as if they wept not, and those who rejoice as if they rejoiced not, and those who buy as if they possessed nothing, ³¹ and those who use the world as if not overusing it. For the present order of this world is passing away.