1 Corinthians 7:31

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 73:20

They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Divide your means seven ways, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may happen on earth.

Luke 21:34

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly,

1 Corinthians 7:29

I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,

1 Corinthians 7:30

and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions,

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.

Hebrews 12:27

This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

1 Peter 1:24

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

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near; therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live forever.