1 Corinthians 7:31

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

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

30those 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,

32And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

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Cross References

Matthew 24:48But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, `My master is a long time in coming,'

Luke 12:15And to the people He said, "Take care, be on your guard against all covetousness, for no one's life consists in the superabundance of his possessions."

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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