And they that use this (c) world, as not abusing [it]: for the (d) fashion of this world passeth away.
(c) Those things which God gives us here.
(d) The guise, and shape, and fashion: by which he shows us that there is nothing in this world that continues.
Verse 31. _AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD_] Let them who have earthly property or employments discharge conscientiously their duties, from a conviction of the instability of earthly things. Make a _rig...
AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD - That make a necessary and proper use of it to furnish raiment, food, clothing, medicine, protection, etc. It is right so to use the world, for it was made for these purp...
4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._ 2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10). 3. Abiding in the Different Ca...
Paul now passes to the case of virgins, on which the church had invited his judgment. The section is one of peculiar difficulty. It is generally thought that Paul is dealing with the relations of a fa...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
I think that this is the right thing because of the present crisis-- that it is the right thing for a man to remain as he is. Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released from that bond....
WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ App-129. ABUSING. using to the full. Greek. _katachraomai._ Only here und 1 Corinthians 9:18. The force of _kata_ is intensive. Compare _katesthio,_ devour, eat up (2 Corinthia...
_as not abusing it_ Perhaps better, AS NOT USING IT TO EXCESS. So in ch. 1 Corinthians 9:18. _for the fashion of this world passeth away_ Rather, IS PASSING AWAY, as a scene in a theatre (see Stanley...
General Instructions Concerning the Marriage of Virgins 25. _virgins_ i.e. unmarried women. St Paul now returns to the question of marriage. But before he enters upon the question of the marriage of...
ΤῸΝ ΚΌΣΜΟΝ אAB. DFG add τοῦτον. τῷ κόσμῳ τοὐτῳ rec. with E. 31. ΤῸΝ ΚΌΣΜΟΝ. See Critical Note. The rec. text is a grammatical correction. The accusative after χρῆσθαι is not found elsewhere in N. T.,...
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE MARRIAGE OF VIRGINS....
_CONCERNING BEING SINGLE OR REMARRIED 1 CORINTHIANS 7:25-40:_ The present distress lead Paul to believe that being single was preferred to marriage at that time. There was severe persecution and being...
ΧΡΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΧΡΆΟΜΑΙ (G5530) использовать, пользоваться. Об употреблении _асс._ с этим гл., который обычно управляет instr. в качестве дополнения, _см._ RG, 476. ΚΑΤΑΧΡΏΜΕΝΟ...
DISCOURSE: 1962 MODERATION IN THE USE OF EARTHLY THINGS INCULCATED 1 Corinthians 7:29. This I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that hare wives be as though they had none;...
AS NOT ABUSING IT.— The word Καταχρωμενοι does not here signify _abusing_ in our sense of the word, but _intently using,_—not carrying the enjoyments of it to any excess; _for the_ whole scheme and _f...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 The Pressures of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:17-40) 17 Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rul...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Concerning the Unmarried_ (25-40) _Commentary_ Now concerning virgins.Up to this point Paul has answered the questions about the expediency of marriage and has given direction...
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. NOT ABUSING IT - by overmuch using of it. "Abusing" here is not so much perverting, as using it to the f...
31 The transient, fleeting character of all of this world's relationships and experiences should warn us not to let them take an undue hold upon our hearts. We cannot but use the world to a limited ex...
7:31 own; (d-14) See Note, ch. 9.18....
_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_ The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language in reply is guarded; he...
ABUSING] RM 'using it to the full,' as if the sole source of enjoyment: cp. 1 John 2:15....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2 V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is good for a man not to marry. V2...
NOT ABUSING IT. — We can scarcely find a better word in English than “abusing” by which to render the Greek of this passage. But this word implies, in modern language, an abuse arising from misuse, an...
CHAPTER 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage as he found it, as it existed among those t...
τοῦτο δέ φημι, ἀδελφοί, κ. τ. λ.: “This moreover I assert, brethren: _The time is cut short_ ”. φημί, as distinguished from λέγω, “marks the gravity and importance of the statement” (El [1139]). Συνστ...
§ 23. ADVANTAGES OF THE SINGLE STATE. Paul's opinion had been asked particularly, in this connexion, about the case of _marriageable daughters_ (1 Corinthians 7:25): was it wise for fathers, as things...
COUNSEL FOR TIMES OF EMERGENCY 1 Corinthians 7:25 The _virgin_ here referred to is probably the young woman who was engaged to be married, and the counsel is expressly defined to be advice, and given...
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answers contain principles of permanent application. Th...
Is Celibacy Preferable To Marriage? McGarvey thinks the third question must have been, "Is celibacy or virginity perferable to marriage?" Paul was inspired in his judgment (7:40; 14:37), so we can rel...
“But this I mean, brethren, the time is henceforth limited, that they even that have wives be as though they had none; 30. and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though...
In this third part of the chapter, the apostle discusses the question of marriage as it relates to virgins (1 Corinthians 7:25-38), adding at the end a word in regard to widows (1 Corinthians 7:39-40)...
: The present state of things....
(18) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. (19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, bu...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_THE PASSING WORLD_ ‘The fashion of this world passeth away.’ 1 Corinthians 7:31 We can well imagine that St. Paul in writing these words of his Epistle to the Corinthian Church was thinking of the...
31._And they that use this world _In the _first _clause there is the participle χρώμενοι (_using_,) in the _second_, there is a compound of it — καταχρώμενοι (_abusing_.) Now the preposition κατα in a...
The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD, AS NOT ABUSING IT,.... Such as have a large affluence of the things of this world, should use them in a moderate and temperate manner; should not squander them away extra...
And they that use this world, as not abusing _it_ : for the fashion of this world passeth away. Ver. 31. _As not abusing it_] Not shooting our affections overly far into it. David was as a weaned chi...
_But this I say_, &c. But though I leave every one to his own liberty in the case now mentioned, yet here is what is necessary for all to observe. _The time_ Of our abode here, and of these worldly en...
NOT ABUSING IT; not using it to excess, depending upon it, or seeking your chief good in it. THE FASHION; circumstances and condition of earthly things. PASSETH AWAY; like a shadow or dream. Psalms...
AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD AS NOT ABUSING IT; FOR THE FASHION OF THIS WORLD PASSETH AWAY. No matter under what conditions a, person lives and works, his first duty is toward the Lord, to whom the wh...
No earthly ties should hinder the service of God:...
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to raise...
AND THOSE THAT USE THE WORLD, AS NOT USING IT TO THE FULL: FOR THE FASHION OF THIS WORLD PASSETH AWAY. 'as not using it to the full' -'that is, be "not engrossed" or "absorbed" in it.' (Fee p. 341)...
25-35 Considering the distress of those times, the unmarried state was best. Notwithstanding, the apostle does not condemn marriage. How opposite are those to the apostle Paul who forbid many to marr...
AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD, AS NOT ABUSING IT: while you have any thing of this world's goods you may use them, yea, you must use them, without them you cannot live in the world; but the considerati...
and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away. [At the time of Paul's writing, a great social convulsion was expected. The persecutions under Ne...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And they are also unacquainted with [the meaning of] the passing away of the heaven and earth; but Paul was not ignorant of it when he declared, "For the figure of t...
1 Corinthians 7:31 and G2532 use G5530 (G5740) this G5127 world G2889 as G5613 not G3361 misusing G2710
‘But this I say brothers, the time is shortened that from now on both those who have wives be as those who have none, and those who weep as those who do not weep, and those who rejoice as those who do...
_Answers to Corinthian Questions regarding Marriage,_ 25-40. 1 Corinthians 7:25. NOW CONCERNING VIRGINS I HAVE NO COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD: BUT I GIVE MY JUDGMENT, AS ONE THAT HATH OBTAINED MERCY OF TH...
THOSE THAT USE THE WORLD (ο χρωμενο τον κοσμον). Old verb χραομα, usually with the instrumental case, but the accusative occurs in some Cretan inscriptions and in late writers according to a tenden...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (2 Corinthians 7:10); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _...
1 Corinthians 7:31 Note: I. The reason why we should not abuse this world: "For the fashion of this world passeth away." Literally, the scene changes. The surface of the world is always shifting. The...
1 Corinthians 7:29 I. Let us contrast the world's treatment of sorrow with that of Christ. Here we use the word world in the widest sense the world of which the Apostle John speaks as including all th...
CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing of f...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME LEFT. Paul may mean: (1) the persecutions which Nero would bring against Christians (in less than ten years); (2) the Jewish Wars (in which armed terrorists would rise against R...
_Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord._ CONCERNING VIRGINS AND WIDOWS The apostle advises-- I. The unmarried of both sexes. As he has argued against the disruption of the ties b...
_But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none._ THE TIME IS SHORT I. For the domestic connections of the world (1 Corinthians 7...
_And they that use this world, as not abusing it._ USING THIS WORLD (Election sermon):-- 1. It is the duty of a Christian, so long as he is a citizen of this world, to take a part in its concerns. “...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:29 See 1 Corinthians 10:11. Paul is not saying that Jesus will definitely return within the Corinthians’ lifetimes. Elsewhere, he encou
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy i. The first question is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marri...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I Corinthians. The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
1 Corinthians 9:18; 1 John 2:17; 1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Tim
And they that use this world, as not abusing it — Not seeking happiness in it, but in God: using every thing therein only in such a manner and degree as most tends to the knowledge and love of God. Fo...