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1 Cor. 7:29 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But this I say, brethren, the timeo is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;*

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1 Peter 4:7• ⁷But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

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2 Peter 3:8‑9• ⁸But, 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.
⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:8‑9)

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Job 14:1‑2• ¹Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
²He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. (Job 14:1‑2)

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Psa. 39:4‑7• ⁴Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
⁵Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
⁶Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
⁷And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. (Psa. 39:4‑7)

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Psa. 90:5‑10• ⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:5‑10)

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Psa. 103:15‑16• ¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. (Psa. 103:15‑16)

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Eccl. 6:12• 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? (Eccl. 6:12)

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Eccl. 9:10• 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. 9:10)

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Rom. 13:11‑12• ¹¹And 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.
¹²The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. (Rom. 13:11‑12)

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Heb. 13:13‑14• ¹³Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
¹⁴For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. (Heb. 13:13‑14)

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1 Peter 4:7• ⁷But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

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2 Peter 3:8‑9• ⁸But, 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.
⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:8‑9)

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1 John 2:17• ¹⁷And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1 John 2:17)

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Eccl. 12:7‑8,13‑14• ⁷Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
⁸Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
¹³Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Eccl. 12:7‑8,13‑14)

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Isa. 24:1‑2• ¹Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
²And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (Isa. 24:1‑2)

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Isa. 40:6‑8• ⁶The 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:
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)

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James 4:13‑16• ¹³Go 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:
¹⁴Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
¹⁵For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
¹⁶But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. (James 4:13‑16)

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1 Peter 1:24• 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: (1 Peter 1:24)

• The time is shortened henceforth (that is, as I suppose, since Christ's death and the call of the church) in order that the believer should hold all but Christ with a loose hand. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 7:15-24” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wivesc, be as not having any:

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It may be translated "for the rest [I say it], in order that even they who have wives."

W. Kelly Translation

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But this I say, brethren, the season is straitened: henceforth that both those that have wives be as having none,