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1 Corinthians 7:29

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

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  1. 1 Corinthians 7:27

    Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  2. 1 Corinthians 7:28

    But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

  3. 1 Corinthians 7:30

    And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

  4. 1 Corinthians 7:31

    And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

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