As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, "Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"

I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

He told them, "You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

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Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.

General references

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage -- right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.