Matthew 24:38

Before the flood people ate, drank, and married, absorbed in daily life. They ignored the coming judgment.

Cross-references · 15

• Luke 17:26–28And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
• Rom 13:13–14Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• Luke 14:18–20And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
• Luke 12:45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
• Gen 6:2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
• Matt 22:30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
• Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
• Amos 6:3–6Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Isa 22:12–14And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• 1 Cor 7:29–31But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
• Ezek 16:49–50Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
• 1 Sam 30:16–17And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
• 1 Sam 25:36–38And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• Gen 7:7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

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