1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O LORD, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.
Ecclesiastes 2:24There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.
Matthew 24:48But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming,
Luke 12:15And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:26-36
Prudential Directions to Virgins. ( a. d. 57.) 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall… Read the whole commentary →