1 Corinthians 7:29

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so, this is what I say, brothers: The time is short. What remains of it is such that: those who have wives should be as if they had none;

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said to the king: "How many days remain in the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is approaching; the day is very near. Whoever buys should not rejoice. And whoever sells should not mourn. For wrath is over all of their people.

Luke 14:20

And another said, 'I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.'

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin has married, she has not sinned. Even so, such as these will have the tribulation of the flesh. But I would spare you from this.

1 Corinthians 7:30

and those who weep, as though they were not weeping; and those who rejoice, as if they were not rejoicing; and those who buy, as if they possessed nothing;

1 Corinthians 7:31

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 Peter 1:24

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

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of everything draws near. And so, be prudent, and be vigilant in your prayers.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.