Matthew 24:38

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

Genesis 7:23

He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:7

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.

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 my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 21:34

“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;