For just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

For just as in the days before the Flood people went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

And just as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be in the time of the Son of Man.

People continued to eat, drink, marry, and be married, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all.

By faith Noah, on being divinely warned about things not seen as yet, in reverence prepared an ark for saving his family, and by his faith condemned the world and became possessor of the uprightness that results from faith.

who had once been disobedient, while God's patience was awaiting in the days when Noah was preparing an ark, in which a few people-- eight, to be exact -- were brought safely through the water.

and if He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others when He brought the flood upon the world of godless people;