Matthew 24:38 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

³⁸ In those days before the flood they went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark,

³⁰ For at the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but all who rise are as angels in Heaven.

¹⁹ And I will say to myself, Now you have plenty of good things put by for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.'

⁴⁵ But should that servant say to himself 'My master is a long time coming,' and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

¹⁸ They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.' ¹⁹ The next said 'I have bought five pairs of bullocks, and I am on my way to try them. I must ask you to consider me excused'; ²⁰ While the next said 'I am just married, and for that reason I am unable to come.'

²⁶ As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

³⁴ Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.

¹³ Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. ¹⁴ No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.

²⁹ What I mean, Brothers, is this-The time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none, ³⁰ Those who are weeping as if not weeping, those who are rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those who buy as if not possessing, ³¹ And those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.