1 Corinthians 7:29

What I mean, friends, is this – the time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,

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In The King James Version

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

In Context

28Still, if you should marry, that is not wrong; nor, if a young woman marries, is that wrong. But those who marry will have much trouble to bear, and my wish is to spare you.

30those who are weeping as if not weeping, those who are rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those who buy as if not possessing,

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Cross References

Psalms 39:4“Teach me, O Lord, my end, and the sum of my days what it is. Let me know how transient I am.

Psalms 103:15A person’s days are as grass; blossoms like a flower of the meadow.

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 →

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