Matthew 24:38

New English Translation

For in those days before the flood, people 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 humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

Genesis 7:23

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

Genesis 7:7

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

Matthew 22:30

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

Luke 12:19

And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

Luke 12:45

But if that slave should say to himself, ‘My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

Luke 21:34

“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.