1 Corinthians 7:31

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

and they yt vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not. For the fassion of this worlde goeth awaye.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ οἱ χρώμενοι τῳ κόσμῳ τούτῳ, ὡς μὴ καταχρώμενοι: παράγει γὰρ τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.

Transliteration

And those chrōmenoi the kosmō this, as mē katachrōmenoi: paragei gar the schēma of the kosmou this.

Grammar Details

• *chrōmenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - using
• *kosmō*: dative, masculine, singular - world/universe/order
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *katachrōmenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - using to the full/misusing
• *paragei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - passes away/passes by
• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/because
• *schēma*: nominative, neuter, singular - form/fashion/appearance
• *kosmou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of world/universe/order

Word Meanings

• *chrōmenoi*: using/employing/engaging with
• *kosmō*: world/universe/order/system
• *katachrōmenoi*: using to the full/misusing/abusing
• *paragei*: passes away/passes by/is passing
• *schēma*: form/fashion/appearance/external condition
• *kosmou*: world/universe/order/system

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the worlde vannyssheth awaye and the lust therof: but he that fulfilleth the will of god abydeth ever.
• 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesshe is as grasse and all the glory of man is as the floure of grasse. The grasse widdereth and the flower falleth away
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The ende of all thinges is at honde. Be ye therfore discrete and sober yt ye maye be apte to prayers.
• 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What is my rewarde then? Verely that whe I preache the gospell I make the gospell of Christ fre yt I misvse not myne auctorite in ye gospel
• Jas 4:14 : 14 and yet can not tell what shall happen to morowe. For what thynge is youre lyfe? It is even a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme and the vanyssheth awaye:
• Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Goo to now ye ryche men. Wepe and howle on youre wretchednes that shall come apon you. 2 Youre ryches is corrupte youre garmentes are motheaten. 3 Youre golde and youre silver are cankred and the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you and shall eate youre flesshe as it were fyre. Ye have heaped treasure togedder in youre last dayes: 4 Beholde the hyre of ye labourers which have reped doune youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and ye cryes of them which have reped are entred into the eares of the LORde Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the erth and in wantannes. Ye have norysshed youre hertes as in a daye of slaughter.
• 1 Tim 6:17-18 : 17 Charge them that are ryche in this worlde that they be not excedynge wyse and that they trust not in the vncertayne ryches but in the livynge god which geveth vs aboundantly all thynges to enioye them 18 and that they do good and be ryche in good workes and redy to geve and to distribute
• Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the ryche in that he is made lowe. For eve as ye flower of the grasse shall he vanysshe awaye. 11 The sonne ryseth with heate and the grasse wydereth and his flower falleth awaye and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: even so shall the ryche man perisshe with his aboundance.
• Matt 24:48-50 : 48 But and yf that evill servaut shall saye in his herte my master wyll defer his comynge 49 and beginne to smyte his felowes ye and to eate and to drinke with the dronke: 50 that servauntes master wyll come in adaye when he loketh not for him and in an houre yt he is not ware of
• Matt 25:14-29 : 14 Lykwyse as a certeyne ma redy to take his iorney to a straunge coutre called his servautes and delivered to them his gooddes. 15 And vnto one he gave.v. talentes to another.ii. and to another one: to every man after his abilite and streyght waye departed. 16 Then he that had receaved the fyve talentes went and bestowed them and wanne other fyve talentes. 17 Lykwyse he that receaved.ii. gayned other.ii. 18 But he yt receaved ye one went and digged a pit in the erth and hyd his masters money. 19 After a longe season ye LORde of those servauntes came and rekened with the. 20 Then came he yt had receaved fyve talentes and brought other fyve talentes sayinge: master thou deliveredst vnto one fyve talentes: beholde I have gayned wt the fyve talentes moo. 21 The his master sayde vnto him: well good servaut and faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell I will make the ruler over moche: entre in into thy masters ioye. 22 Also he that receaved.ii. talentes came and sayde: master thou deliveredest vnto me.ii. talentes: beholde I have wone.ii. other talentes with them. 23 And his master sayde vnto him well good servaunt and faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell I wyll make the ruler over moche: go in into thy masters ioye. 24 Then he which had receaved ye one talent came and sayd: master I considered yt thou wast an harde man which repest where thou sowedst not and gadderest where thou strawedst no 25 and was therfore afrayde and went and hyd thy talent in ye erth: Beholde thou hast thyn awne. 26 His master answered and sayde vnto him: thou evyll servaut and slewthfull thou knewest yt I repe where I sowed not and gaddre where I strawed not: 27 thou oughtest therfore to have had my money to ye chaugers and then at my comynge shulde I have receaved myne awne with vauntage. 28 Take therfore the talent from him and geve it vnto him which hath.x. talentes. 29 For vnto every man that hath shalbe geven and he shall have aboundance: and from him that hath not shalbe taken awaye even that he hath.
• Luke 12:15-21 : 15 Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth. 16 And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge: The groude of a certayne riche ma brought forth frutes plenteously 17 and he thought in himsilfe sayinge: what shall I do? because I have noo roume where to bestowe my frutes? 18 And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes and bilde greater and therin will I gadder all my frutes and my goodes: 19 and I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery. 20 But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole this night will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded? 21 So is it with him that gadereth ryches and is not ryche in God.
• Luke 16:1-2 : 1 And he sayd also vnto his disciples. Ther was a certayne rych man which had a stewarde that was acused vnto him that he had wasted his goodes. 2 And he called him and sayd vnto him: How is it that I heare this of the? Geve a comptes of thy steward shippe: For thou mayste be no longer stewarde.
• Luke 19:17-26 : 17 And he sayde vnto him: Well good servaute because thou wast faithfull in a very lytell thynge take thou auctorite over ten cities. 18 And the other came sayinge: Lorde thy poude hath encreased fyve pounde. 19 And to ye same he sayde: and be thou also ruler ouer fyve cities. 20 And the thyrde came and sayde: Lorde beholde here thy pounde which I have kepte in a napkyn 21 for I feared the because thou arte a strayte man: thou takest vp that thou laydest not doune and repest that thou dyddest not sowe. 22 And he sayde vnto him: Of thine awne mouth iudge I the thou evyll servaunt. knewest thou that I am a strayte man takinge vp that I layde not doune and repinge that I dyd not sowe? 23 Wherfore then gavest not thou my money into the banke that at my cominge I might have required myne awne with vauntage? 24 And he sayde to them that stode by: take fro him that pounde and geve it him that hath ten poude. 25 And they sayd vnto him: Lorde he hath ten pounde. 26 I saye vnto you that vnto all the that have it shalbe geve: and from him yt hath not eve that he hath shalbe taken from him.
• Luke 21:34 : 34 Take hede to youre selves lest youre hertes be overcome with surfettinge and dronkennes and cares of this worlde: and that that daye come on you vnwares.