1 Corinthians 7:29 Cross References - ACV

²⁹ But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

¹ Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. ² He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

⁴ LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am. ⁵ Behold, thou have made my days as handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah. ⁶ Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them. ⁷ And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in thee.

⁵ Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up. ⁶ In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers. ⁷ For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled. ⁸ Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. ¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.

¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. ⁸ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man. ¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

¹ Behold, LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it. ² And 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 creditor, so with the debtor, as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

⁶ The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field. ⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of LORD blows upon it. Surely the people is grass. ⁸ The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever.

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed. ¹² The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.

³¹ and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

¹³ Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. ¹⁴ For here we have no enduring city, but we seek that which is coming.

¹³ Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain- ¹⁴ men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away- ¹⁵ in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that. ¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

²⁴ Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,

⁷ But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

⁸ But beloved, let not this one thing be ignored by you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.