1 Corinthians 7:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

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  • Rom 13:11-12 : 11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
  • 1 Cor 7:31 : 31 And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.
  • Eccl 12:13-14 : 13 This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man. 14 God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
  • Ps 39:4-7 : 4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am. 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.) 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it. 7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
  • Jas 4:13-16 : 13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. 15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that. 16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
  • 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
  • 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath. 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. 16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • Eccl 12:7-8 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it. 8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
  • Isa 24:1-2 : 1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions. 2 And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. 8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
  • Heb 13:13-14 : 13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves. 14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

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  • 1 Cor 7:24-28
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    24My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.

    25Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.

    26In my opinion then, because of the present trouble, it is good for a man to keep as he is.

    27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

    28If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

  • 1 Cor 7:30-40
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    30And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;

    31And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.

    32But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord:

    33But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

    34And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

    35Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

    36But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married.

    37But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.

    38So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

    39It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.

    40But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-12
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    1Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

    5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

    6But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.

    7It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.

    8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.

    9But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

    10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

    11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

    12But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.

  • Rom 7:1-4
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    1Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

    2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

    3So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

  • Matt 19:10
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    10The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

  • Luke 20:29
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    29Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;

  • Luke 20:33-35
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    33When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.

    34And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;

    35But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

    29For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

  • Eph 5:32
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    32This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;

  • Luke 18:29
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    29And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

  • Mark 10:7
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    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

  • Matt 22:30
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    30For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

  • Matt 22:28
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    28When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.