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Luke 17:31
Luke 17:31 is verse 31 of Luke chapter 17, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
King James Version
In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
World English Bible
In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
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Luke 17:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible
29 But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31 On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
32 Remember Lot’s wife!
33 Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 2:4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
Jeremiah 45:5But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew 24:17Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
Matthew 24:18And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
Matthew 24:20Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
Matthew 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
Mark 13:14So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Mark 13:15Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.
Mark 13:16And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
Philippians 3:7But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
Philippians 3:8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ