Luke 17:27

New International Reader's Version

People were eating and drinking. They were getting married. They were giving their daughters to be married. They did all those things right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Cross References

Genesis 7:23

Every living thing on earth was wiped out. People and animals were destroyed. The creatures that move along the ground and the birds in the sky were wiped out. Everything on earth was destroyed. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.

Genesis 7:7

He and his sons entered the ark. His wife and his sons’ wives went with them. They entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart grows weak. Fear makes me tremble. I longed for evening to come. But it brought me horror instead of rest.

Isaiah 47:11

So horrible trouble will come on you. You will not know how to use your evil magic to make it go away. Great trouble will fall on you. No amount of money can keep it away. Something terrible will happen to you all at once. You will not see it coming ahead of time.

Matthew 22:30

When the dead rise, they won’t get married. And their parents won’t give them to be married. They will be like the angels in heaven.

Luke 17:26

“Remember how it was in the days of Noah. It will be the same when the Son of Man comes.

Luke 17:28

“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking. They were buying and selling. They were planting and building.

1 Samuel 30:16

He led David down to where the men were. They were scattered all over the countryside. They were eating and drinking and dancing wildly. That’s because they had taken a large amount of goods from those they had attacked. They had taken it from the land of the Philistines and from the people of Judah.