1 Corinthians 7:31

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

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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

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

32I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master’s cause, desiring to please him;

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Cross References

Psalms 73:20Like a dream, when one wakes, shall they be, whose phantoms the waker despises.

Matthew 24:48But, should the servant be a bad servant, and say to themselves ‘My master is a long time in coming,’

Luke 12:15And then he added, “Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of their prosperity a person’s true life does not depend on what they have.”

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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