Luke 17:31
Good News Translation
"On that day someone who is on the roof of a house must not go down into the house to get any belongings; in the same way anyone who is out in the field must not go back to the house.

New Revised Standard Version
On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back.

Contemporary English Version
At that time no one on a rooftop should go down into the house to get anything. No one in a field should go back to the house for anything.

New American Bible
On that day, a person who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise a person in the field must not return to what was left behind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.

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Job 2:4 And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

Jeremiah 45:5 And dost thou seek great things for thyself? Seek not: for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee thy life, and save thee in all places whithersoever thou shalt go.

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Matthew 24:17-21 And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house: . . .

Mark 13:14-16 And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not (he that readeth let him understand): then let them that are in Judea flee unto the mountains. . . .

Philippians 3:7,8 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. . . .

Context
The Coming of the Kingdom
30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed. 31In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. 32Remember Lot's wife.…
Cross References
Matthew 24:17
And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Matthew 24:18
And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.

Mark 13:15
And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house nor enter therein to take any thing out of the house.

Luke 21:21
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains: and those who are in the midst thereof depart out: and those who are in the countries not enter into it.

Luke 17:30
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