Matthew 24:38 Cross References - Moffatt

³⁸ For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark;

³⁰ At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

⁴⁵ But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

¹⁸ But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.' ¹⁹ The second said, 'I have bought five pair of oxen and I am going to try them. Pray consider me excused.' ²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife; that is why I cannot come.'

²⁶ And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man; ²⁷ they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark — then came the deluge and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building,

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

¹³ let us live decorously as in the open light of day — no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy. ¹⁴ No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

²⁹ I mean, brothers, — the interval has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none, ³⁰ let mourners live as if they were not mourning, let the joyful live as if they had no joy, let buyers live as if they had no hold on their goods, ³¹ let those who mix in the world live as if they were not engrossed in it, for the present phase of things is passing away.