1 Corinthians 7:29
Good News Translation
What I mean, my friends, is this: there is not much time left, and from now on married people should live as though they were not married;

New Revised Standard Version
I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,

Contemporary English Version
My friends, what I mean is that the Lord will soon come, and it won't matter if you are married or not.

New American Bible
I tell you, brothers, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

the time.

Job 14:1,2 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. . . .

Psalm 39:4-7 I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me. . . .

Psalm 90:5-10 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Psalm 103:15,16 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Romans 13:11,12 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. . . .

Hebrews 13:13,14 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. . . .

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

2 Peter 3:8,9 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. . . .

1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

that both.

Ecclesiastes 12:7,8,13,14 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it. . . .

Isaiah 24:1,2 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. . . .

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

James 4:13-16 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

Context
The Unmarried and Widowed
28But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you. 29This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none: 30And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not:…
Cross References
Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.

Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Romans 13:12
The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

1 Corinthians 7:28
But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:30
And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not:

1 Corinthians 7:31
And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

1 Corinthians 7:28
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