1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the things of this world, as if they were not using them. For the figure of this world is passing away.
Catholic Public Domain 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 73:20Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.
Ecclesiastes 2:24Is it not better to eat and drink, and to show his soul the good things of his labors? And this is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:18And this is a gift from God: that every man to whom God has given wealth and resources, and to whom he has granted the ability to consume these, may enjoy his portion, and may find joy in his labors.
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, and indeed even to eight. For you do not know what evil may be upon the earth in the future.
Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant has said in his heart, ‘My lord has been delayed in returning,’
Luke 12:15So he said to them: “Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person’s life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses.”
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 →