1 Corinthians 7:31

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

Montgomery New Testament

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

30let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

32So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord’s business, how he may please the Lord;

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Cross References

Matthew 24:48"But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, ‘My Master is a long time in coming,’

Luke 12:15And to the people he said, "Take heed and guard yourselves from all covetousness, for a man’s life does not consist in 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 →

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