Matthew 24:38

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair and took as wives any they chose.

Genesis 7:23

So He blotted out every living thing which was on the face of the ground, both man and animals and the creeping things and the birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.

Genesis 7:7

And Noah went with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives into the ark, because of the floodwaters.

Matthew 22:30

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven.

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take rest. Eat, drink, and be merry.’

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the house servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 21:34

“Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become burdened by excessiveness and drunkenness and anxieties of life, and that Day comes on you unexpectedly.