As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
Parallel translations
- KJV And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
- BSB Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- NKJV And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
- NASB And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man:
- NLT “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day.
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Cross-references · 12
- Matt 24:37–39“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Luke 17:24for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.
- Gen 7:7–23Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
- Luke 17:22He said to the disciples, “The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
- Heb 11:7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
- 1 Pet 3:19–20in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
- 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
- Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
- Job 22:15–18Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
- 2 Pet 3:6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
- Gen 6:7Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground — man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky — for I am sorry that I have made them.”
- Luke 18:8I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
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