1 Corinthians 7:31

Those who use the world should not become engrossed in it, for the present form of this world is passing away. The world's fashion is fleeting, so don't build your life on it.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• 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;
• Eccl 9:7–10Go your way — eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
• 1 Tim 6:17–18Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Eccl 1:4One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
• Eccl 2:24–25There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
• Eccl 3:12–13I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
• Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
• Eccl 5:18–20Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
• 1 Cor 9:18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
• Jas 5:1–5Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Jas 1:10–11and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
• Luke 12:15–21He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
• Ps 73:20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
• Eccl 11:9–10Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
• Matt 25:14–29“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
• Matt 24:48–50But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
• Luke 19:17–26“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
• Eccl 11:2Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
• Luke 16:1–2He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

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