28 However, if you do get married,(A) you have not sinned, and if a virgin[a] marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life,[b] and I am trying to spare you.

29 This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is limited,(B) so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none, 30 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice(C) as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they didn’t own anything,

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Footnotes

  1. 7:28 Or betrothed woman
  2. 7:28 Lit in the flesh

28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.

29 But (A)this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, 30 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

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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.

29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they 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 they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

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