But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; Treasury of Scripture the time. Job 14:1,2 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble... Psalm 39:4-7 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am... Psalm 90:5-10 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up... Psalm 103:15,16 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes... Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow?... Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave... Romans 13:11,12 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed... Hebrews 13:13,14 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach... 1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch to prayer. 2 Peter 3:8,9 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day... 1 John 2:17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God stays for ever. that both. Ecclesiastes 12:7,8,13,14 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it... Isaiah 24:1,2 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof... Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field... James 4:13-16 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain... 1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass wither, and the flower thereof falls away:
Context Instructions to Unmarried and Widowed
25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. 27Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. 29But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 30And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away. 32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction. 36But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry. 37Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well. 38So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better. 39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
Douay-Rheims Bible
This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none;
Darby Bible Translation
But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:
King James Bible
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Young's Literal Translation
And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;
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