Luke 17:28
Good News Translation
It will be as it was in the time of Lot. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

New Revised Standard Version
Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

Contemporary English Version
When Lot lived, people were also eating and drinking. They were buying, selling, planting, and building.

New American Bible
Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.

Genesis 13:13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

Genesis 18:20,21 And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. . . .

Genesis 19:4-15 But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together. . . .

Ezekiel 16:49,50 Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor. . . .

James 5:1-5 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Context
The Coming of the Kingdom
27They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built. 29And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.…
Cross References
Genesis 19:1
And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.

Jeremiah 50:40
As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son of man inhabit it.

Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the chairs of them that sold doves.

Luke 17:27
They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:29
And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:27
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