1 Corinthians 7:30

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

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

In Context

29What I mean, friends, is this – the time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,

31and those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.

Read all of 1 Corinthians 7

Cross References

Psalms 30:5For his anger lasts only a moment, his favor endures for a lifetime. Weeping may lodge for the night, but the morning brings shouts of joy.

Luke 6:25Alas for you who are sated now, for you will hunger. Alas for you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

John 16:22You, in the same way, are sorry now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy.

Revelation 18:7for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says ‘I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I will never know misery.’

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 1 Corinthians 7:30