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1 Corinthians 7:29
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27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.
29 But athis I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,  
30 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,
31 and those who use this world as not amisusing it. For bthe form of this world is passing away.  
32 But I want you to be without1 care. aHe who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.  
Verse Comparison: 1 Corinthians 7:29

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American Standard Version
But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

Amplified® Bible
I mean, brethren, the appointed time has been winding down {and} it has grown very short. From now on, let even those who have wives be as if they had none,

Contemporary English Version
My friends, what I mean is that the Lord will soon come, and it won't matter if you are married or not.

Darby English Version
But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having [any]:

Good News Bible
What I mean, my friends, is this: there is not much time left, and from now on married people should live as though they were not married;

International Standard Version
This is what I mean, brothers: The time has been shortened. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

King James Version
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

New American Standard Bible
But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

New International Version
What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

New King James Version
But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
But this I say, brethren, the time has shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should live as though they had none;

Young's Literal Translation
And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;


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