A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.
1 Corinthians 7:31 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And those who deal with this world [overusing the enjoyments of this life] as though they were not absorbed by it and as if they had no dealings with it. For the outward form of this world (the present world order) is passing away. American Standard Version (1901) and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away. Common English Bible Those who use the world should be like people who aren’t preoccupied with it, because this world in its present form is passing away. Catholic Public Domain Version and those who use the things of this world, as if they were not using them. For the figure of this world is passing away. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. |
A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.
Give a portion to seven or even to eight, for you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.
‘Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly
This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,
those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they didn’t own anything,
What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my rights in the gospel.
This expression, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of what can be shaken #– #that is, created things #– #so that what is not shaken might remain.
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer.
And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains for ever.