1 Corinthians 7:29

New English Translation

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

Barzillai replied to the king, “How many days do I have left to my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For no one knows what is best for a person during his life – during the few days of his fleeting life – for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.

Luke 14:20

Another said, ‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

1 Corinthians 7:30

those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,

1 Corinthians 7:31

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

1 Peter 4:7

For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.