Matthew 24:38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
KJV
ὡς γὰρ ἦσαν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταῖς πρὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ τρώγοντες καὶ πίνοντες, γαμοῦντες καὶ γαμίζοντες, ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας εἰσῆλθεν Νῶε εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν,
Greek NT
sicut enim erant in diebus ante diluvium comedentes et bibentes, nubentes et nuptum tradentes, usque ad eum diem, quo intravit Noë in arcam,
Vulgate
For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
ASV
For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark:
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In the original Greek
19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ὡς — SBLGNT
- ὡς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Ὥσπερ — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἡμέραις — SBLGNT
- ἡμέραις — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- + ἐκείναις — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27
- γαμίζοντες — SBLGNT
- γαμίζοντες — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐκγαμίζοντες — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:29 — But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
- 1Sam 25:36 — And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or
- 1Sam 30:16 — And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philis
- 2Pet 3:6 — Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
- Amos 6:3 — Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- Ezek 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- Gen 6:14 — Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
- Gen 7:7 — And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
- Heb 11:7 — By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness whi
- Isa 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Jer 16:8 — Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
- Job 24:1 — Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
- Judg 16:30 — And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at hi
- Luke 12:19 — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
- Luke 12:45 — But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
- Luke 14:18 — And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
- Luke 14:18 — And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
- Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
- Luke 21:34 — And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
- Matt 22:30 — For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
- Rom 13:13 — Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.