1 Corinthians 7:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ 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)

³¹ and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

Common English Bible

³¹ 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

³¹ 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.

1 Corinthians 7:31 Cross References

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near; therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Luke 21:34

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my wage? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Divide your means seven ways, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may happen on earth.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

Psalm 73:20

They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

1 Corinthians 7:29

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,

1 Corinthians 7:30

and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions,

Hebrews 12:27

This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.