29But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:


In Context

26 I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.

27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

28 But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

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

30 and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

31 and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

1 Corinthians 7:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:29But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:29What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:29This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29But this I say, brethren, The time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened — that both those having wives may be as not having;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:29But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;