But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened; so that from now on even those having wives should be as though they had none,
Still another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'
But even if you should marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned. But such will have trouble in the flesh, and I would spare you.
and those weeping as though not weeping, and those rejoicing as though not rejoicing, and those buying as though not possessing,
and those using this world as not using it up. For the form of this world is passing away.
For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.
And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.