1 Corinthians 7:29

Paul urges that "the time is short," so even those with wives should live with a certain holy detachment, not letting marriage become an all-consuming ultimate. The brevity of the age reorders every earthly attachment.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Jn 2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• 1 Cor 7:31And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
• Rom 13:11–12And 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.
• Jas 4:13–16Go to now, ye 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:
• Heb 13:13–14Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
• Eccl 12:13–14Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 2 Pet 3:8–9But, 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.
• Eccl 12:7–8Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Ps 39:4–7LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
• 1 Pet 1:24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• Isa 40:6–8The 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:
• Isa 24:1–2Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
• Ps 90:5–10Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
• Eccl 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
• Eccl 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
• Job 14:1–2Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

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