1 Corinthians 7:31

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

30and 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;

32And therefore I wish you to be without solicitude. For he who hath not a wife, considereth the thing of his Lord, how he may please his Lord.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:48But if that servant, being wicked, shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

Luke 12:15And he said to his disciples: Beware of all avarice, for life consisteth not in abundance of riches.

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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