1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
World Messianic Bible
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 when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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 proper is for one 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 portion.
Ecclesiastes 11:2Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which 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 →