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They will say to you, "Look there!' or "Look here!' Do not go, do not set off in pursuit.
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For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
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But first he must endure much suffering and be rejected by this generation.
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Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
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They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them.
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Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
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but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all of them
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—it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
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On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back.
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Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.