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 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
• 1 Cor 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
• Rom 13:11–12Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• Jas 4:13–16Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
• Heb 13:13–14Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
• Eccl 12:13–14This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• 2 Pet 3:8–9But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
• Eccl 12:7–8and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Ps 39:4–7“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• Isa 40:6–8The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
• Isa 24:1–2Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
• Ps 90:5–10You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• Eccl 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
• Eccl 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
• Job 14:1–2“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

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