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1 Corinthians 7:28-30
New Catholic Bible
1 Corinthians 7:28-30
New Catholic Bible
28 However, if you do marry, you do not sin, nor does a virgin sin if she marries. But those who marry will experience hardships in this life,[a] and from these I would like to spare you.
29 What I am saying, brethren, is that our time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had nothing,
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- 1 Corinthians 7:28 Hardships in this life: literally, “tribulations of the flesh,” which refer not so much to the difficulties of spouses as to the trials proper to the last times. Those who possess material goods or family in this world will feel more deeply the trial of having to leave them (see Lk 17:26-37). Christians ought to be already living, at least spiritually, in that eschatological era.
