1 Corinthians 7:29
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This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.

Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Romans 13:12
The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

1 Corinthians 7:28
But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:30
And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not:

1 Corinthians 7:31
And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

the time.

Job 14:1,2 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. . . .

Psalm 39:4-7 I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me. . . .

Psalm 90:5-10 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Psalm 103:15,16 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Romans 13:11,12 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. . . .

Hebrews 13:13,14 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. . . .

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

2 Peter 3:8,9 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. . . .

1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

that both.

Ecclesiastes 12:7,8,13,14 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it. . . .

Isaiah 24:1,2 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. . . .

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

James 4:13-16 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

Context
The Unmarried and Widowed
28But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you. 29This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none: 30And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not:…
Lexicon
[What]
δέ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

I am saying,
φημι (phēmi)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 5346: To say, declare. Properly, the same as the base of phos and phaino; to show or make known one's thoughts, i.e. Speak or say.

brothers,
ἀδελφοί (adelphoi)
Noun - Vocative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

[is] that
Τοῦτο (Touto)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3778: This; he, she, it.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

time
καιρὸς (kairos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2540: Fitting season, season, opportunity, occasion, time. Of uncertain affinity; an occasion, i.e. Set or proper time.

is
ἐστίν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

short.
συνεσταλμένος (synestalmenos)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 4958: To contract, shorten, wrap around, swathe. From sun and stello; to send together, i.e. Enwrap, contract.

From now on
λοιπὸν (loipon)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3063: Finally, from now on, henceforth, beyond that. Neuter singular of the same as loipoy; something remaining.

those who
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

have
ἔχοντες (echontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

wives
γυναῖκας (gynaikas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 1135: A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife.

should live
ὦσιν (ōsin)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

as if
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

they had
ἔχοντες (echontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

none;
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.


Additional Translations
What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

Now I say this, brothers: The season is shortened; that from now on both those having wives, should be as having none;

But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

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

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

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

But this I say, brethren, The time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none;

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

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

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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