and the ones using this world as not overusing it; for the fashion of this world is passing away.
Surely a man walks about in shadow; surely they are in an uproar in vain; he heaps up and does not know who is gathering them.
Like a dream awakening from dreaming, O Lord, in awakening You will despise their image.
A generation goes away, and another generation comes; but the earth stands forever.
Give a share to seven, or even to eight; for you do not know what evil may be on the earth.
But take heed to yourselves that your hearts not be loaded down with headaches, and drinking, and anxieties of life, and that day come suddenly upon you.
But I say this, brothers, that the time having been cut short, the remaining thing is, that even the ones having wives should be as not having,
and the ones weeping as not weeping, and the ones rejoicing as not rejoicing, and the ones buying as not possessing,
What then is my reward? That preaching the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ free, so as not to use fully my authority in the gospel.
Now the words “Yet once” make clear the removal of the things being shaken, as having been made, so that the things not being shaken may remain.
who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little is appearing, and then disappearing. Ps. 94:11
Because “all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of grass; the grass was dried, and its flower fell off,
But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be self-controlled unto prayers;
And the world is passing away, and its lust. But the one doing the will of God abides unto the age.