1 Corinthians 7:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Corinthians 7:31 Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalm 73:20

As a dream when one awaketh; So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven, yea, even unto eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

1 Corinthians 7:30

and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

Hebrews 12:27

And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

James 4:14

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

1 Peter 1:24

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

1 John 2:17

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.