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1 Corinthians 7:29 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; "

1 Corinthians 7:29

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27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

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1 Corinthians 7:1

"Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman."

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"The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does."

1 Corinthians 7:5

"Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

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"But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment."

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