1 Corinthians 7:29 What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

English Standard Version
This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,

New American Standard Bible
But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

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;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

International Standard Version
This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

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:

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;

Cross References

Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is on all the multitude thereof.

Romans 13:11
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.

Romans 13:12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

1 Corinthians 7:28
But 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.

1 Corinthians 7:30
And 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;

1 Corinthians 7:31
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:25-35 Considering the distress of those times, the unmarried state was best. Notwithstanding, the apostle does not condemn marriage. How opposite are those to the apostle Paul who forbid many to marry, and entangle them with vows to remain single, whether they ought to do so or not! He exhorts all Christians to holy indifference toward the world. As to relations; they must not set their hearts on the comforts of the state. As to afflictions; they must not indulge the sorrow of the world: even in sorrow the heart may be joyful. As to worldly enjoyments; here is not their rest. As to worldly employment; those that prosper in trade, and increase in wealth, should hold their possessions as though they held them not. As to all worldly concerns; they must keep the world out of their hearts, that they may not abuse it when they have it in their hands. All worldly things are show; nothing solid. All will be quickly gone. Wise concern about worldly interests is a duty; but to be full of care, to have anxious and perplexing care, is a sin. By this maxim the apostle solves the case whether it were advisable to marry. That condition of life is best for every man, which is best for his soul, and keeps him most clear of the cares and snares of the world. Let us reflect on the advantages and snares of our own condition in life; that we may improve the one, and escape as far as possible all injury from the other. And whatever cares press upon the mind, let time still be kept for the things of the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. this I say—A summing up of the whole, wherein he draws the practical inference from what precedes (1Co 15:50).

the time—the season (so the Greek) of this present dispensation up to the coming of the Lord (Ro 13:11). He uses the Greek expression which the Lord used in Lu 21:8; Mr 13:33.

short—literally, "contracted."

it remaineth—The oldest manuscripts read, "The time (season) is shortened as to what remains, in order that both they," &c.; that is, the effect which the shortening of the time ought to have is, "that for the remaining time (henceforth), both they," &c. The clause, "as to what remains," though in construction belonging to the previous clause, in sense belongs to the following. However, Cyprian and Vulgate support English Version.

as though they had none—We ought to consider nothing as our own in real or permanent possession.