1 Corinthians 7:30

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

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

29Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

31and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.

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Cross References

Luke 6:25"Alas for you who now have plenty to eat, because you will be hungry! "Alas for you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep aloud!

John 16:22So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will take away from you.

Revelation 18:7She has freely glorified herself and revelled in luxury; equally freely administer torment to her, and woe. For in her heart she boasts, saying, `I sit enthroned as Queen: no widow am I: I shall never know 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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