Matthew 24:38

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

In Context

37As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

39They knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:30For in the resurrection people neither marry nor are they given in marriage. Instead, they are like angels of God in heaven.

Luke 12:45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and he begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 17:26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:33-51

Parable of the Fig-Tree; Awful Predictions; The Duty of Watchfulness; The Good and Evil Steward. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth… Read the whole commentary →

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