Matthew 24:40 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁴⁰ At that time, of two men on a farm one will be taken and one left;

³⁴ On that night, I tell you, of two men upon the same bed, one will be taken and the other left; ³⁵ Of two women grinding together, one will be taken and the other left." ³⁶ OMITTED TEXT ³⁷ "Where will it be, Master?" interposed the disciples. "Where there is a body," said Jesus, "'there will the vultures flock.'"

³⁹ One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us," he said. ⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him. "Have not you," he said, "any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence? ⁴¹ And we justly so, for we are only reaping our deserts, but this man has not done anything wrong. ⁴² Jesus," he went on, "do not forget me when you have come to your Kingdom." ⁴³ And Jesus answered: "I tell you, this very day you shall be with me in Paradise."

⁷ For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?

⁵ Nor did he spare the world of old; though he preserved Noah, the Preacher of Righteousness, and seven others, when he brought a flood upon the godless world.

⁷ but he rescued righteous Lot, whose heart was vexed by the wanton licentiousness of his neighbors; ⁸ for, seeing and hearing what he did, as he lived his righteous life among them, day after day, Lot's righteous soul was tortured by their wicked doings. ⁹ The Lord, therefore, knows how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to keep the wicked, who are even now suffering punishment, in readiness for 'the Day of Judgment'--