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;


In Context

26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

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, that 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.

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

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 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;