³⁸ For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.^{(A) 39} They didn’t know^[a] until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:

²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so it will be in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage^(B) until the day Noah boarded the ark,^(C) and the flood came and destroyed them all.

⁷ By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.^(A)