1 Corinthians 7:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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;

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  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy. 6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
  • Isa 30:19 : 19 O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
  • John 16:22 : 22 So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.
  • Rev 7:17 : 17 For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
  • Rev 18:7 : 7 As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.

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  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29 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;

  • Ezek 7:12-13
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    12 The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

    13 For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:

  • 2 Cor 6:9-10
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    9 Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;

    10 As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

  • Rom 12:15
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    15 Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

  • Luke 7:32
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    32 They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.

  • Isa 24:7-8
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    7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

    8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

  • Jer 16:7
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    7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

  • Rev 18:11
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    11 And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,

  • 1 Tim 6:7-8
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    7 For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;

    8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.

  • Jas 4:9
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    9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

  • Eccl 7:2-4
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    2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

    3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

    4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

  • 1 Thess 4:12-13
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    12 That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

    13 But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

  • Luke 6:24-25
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    24 But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.

    25 Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

  • Jas 4:13
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    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:

  • John 16:20
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    20 Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Luke 12:33
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    9 Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

    10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

  • Ps 126:5
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    5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

  • Luke 17:31
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    31 On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.

  • Matt 5:4
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    4 Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

  • Rev 18:15
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    15 The traders in these things, by which their wealth was increased, will be watching far off for fear of her punishment, weeping and crying;

  • Jas 5:1
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    1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

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    21 Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7 A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Matt 9:15
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    15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

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    15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

  • Isa 22:12-13
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    12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

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    16 And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat.

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    27 If 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35 Now 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.

  • Job 21:13
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    13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

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    8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

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    28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;