Luke 17:27-35

27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31 On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
32 Remember Lot’s wife!
33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.
34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.[a]

Cross References 6

  • 1. Genesis 19:1-28
  • 2. Matthew 10:23; S Matthew 16:27; Matthew 24:3,27,37,39; Matthew 25:31; S 1 Corinthians 1:7; S 1 Thessalonians 2:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; 2 Peter 3:4; S Revelation 1:7
  • 3. Matthew 24:17,18; Mark 13:15-16
  • 4. Genesis 19:26
  • 5. S John 12:25
  • 6. Matthew 24:41

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 24:40.
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