1 Corinthians 7:30

and they who weep, as if they wept not; and they who rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they who buy, as if they acquired not;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

29And this I say, my Brethren, that the time to come is short; so that they who have wives, should be as if they had none;

31and those occupied with this world, not going beyond the just using: for the fashion of this world is passing away.

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Cross References

Luke 6:25Woe to you that are full; for ye will hunger. Woe to you that laugh now, for ye will weep and mourn.

John 16:22Ye also now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will deprive you of your joy.

Revelation 18:7As much as she pleased herself with lasciviousness, so much of anguish and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see no sorrow;

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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