“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Parallel translations
- KJV But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
- BSB As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
- ESV For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- NKJV But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
- NASB For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
- NLT “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day.
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- Luke 17:26–27As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
- Gen 6:1–7When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
- 2 Pet 3:6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
- 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.
- 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;
- Matt 24:39and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- 1 Pet 3:20–21who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
- Gen 7:6–23Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- Job 22:15–17Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
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