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

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1 Peter 4:7• ⁷But the end of all things hath drawn nigh. Be discreet therefore and watch unto prayers, (1 Peter 4:7)

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2 Peter 3:8‑9• ⁸{i}But{/i} {i}let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved,{/i} that one day is with [the] Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹{i}[The] Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance{/i}. (2 Peter 3:8‑9)

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Job 14:1‑2• ¹Man, born of woman,{HR}Is of few days, and full of trouble,
²Cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down,{HR}And he fleeth as a shadow, and abideth not, (Job 14:1‑2)

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Psa. 39:4‑7• ⁴Make me to know, O Jehovah, my end,{HR}And the measure of my days, what it [is];{HR}Let me know how frail I am.
⁵Behold, thou hast made my days handbreadths,{HR}And my lifetime as nothing before thee:{HR}Surely all vanity [is] every man appointed. Selah.
⁶Surely in an image doth man walk;{HR}Surely in vain are they disquieted:{HR}He hoardeth, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
⁷And now what wait I for, O Lord?{HR}My expectation [is] from thee. (Psa. 39:4‑7)

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Psa. 90:5‑10• ⁵Thou sweepest them away— asleep are they;{HR}In the morning as grass changeth;
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth.
⁷For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
⁹For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought.
¹⁰The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:5‑10)

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Psa. 103:15‑16• ¹⁵Man! his days [are] like grass;{HR}As a flower of the field, so doth he flourish.
¹⁶For a breath passeth over him, and he is not,{HR}And the place thereof shall know him no more. (Psa. 103:15‑16)

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Eccl. 6:12• ¹²For who knoweth what is good for man in life,{HR}All the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?{HR}For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? (Eccl. 6:12)

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Eccl. 9:10• ¹⁰Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,{HR}Do with thy might;{HR}For there is no work, nor device,{HR}Nor knowledge, nor wisdom,{HR}In Sheol whither thou goest. (Eccl. 9:10)

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Rom. 13:11‑12• ¹¹And this, knowing the time, that [it is] already time that we should awake from sleep; for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.
¹²The night is far spent, and the day is near: let us therefore put off the deeds of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Rom. 13:11‑12)

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Heb. 13:13‑14• ¹³Therefore let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
¹⁴For here we have not an abiding city, but we seek after the coming one. (Heb. 13:13‑14)

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1 Peter 4:7• ⁷But the end of all things hath drawn nigh. Be discreet therefore and watch unto prayers, (1 Peter 4:7)

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2 Peter 3:8‑9• ⁸{i}But{/i} {i}let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved,{/i} that one day is with [the] Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹{i}[The] Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance{/i}. (2 Peter 3:8‑9)

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1 John 2:17• ¹⁷And the world is passing, and its lust; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. (1 John 2:17)

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Eccl. 12:7‑8,13‑14• ⁷And the dust return to the earth as it was,{HR}And the spirit return unto God who gave it.
⁸Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher;{HR}All [is] vanity.
¹³[This is] the end of the matter;{HR}All hath been heard:{HR}Fear God, and keep His commandments;{HR}For this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment,{HR}With every hidden thing,{HR}Whether [it be] good or whether [it be] evil. (Eccl. 12:7‑8,13‑14)

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Isa. 24:1‑2• ¹Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
²And 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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken. (Isa. 24:1‑2)

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Isa. 40:6‑8• ⁶A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? —All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field.
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the Spirit of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)

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James 4:13‑16• ¹³Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city here, and spend there a year, and traffic and make gain,
¹⁴whereas ye know not what [will be] the morrow. Of what sort [is] your life? Why, it is a vapour that appeareth for a little and then disappeareth,
¹⁵instead of your saying, If the Lord will, we shall both live and do this or that.
¹⁶But now ye glory in your vauntings; all such glorying is wicked. (James 4:13‑16)

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1 Peter 1:24• ²⁴Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as a flower of grass. The grass withered and the flower fell away, (1 Peter 1:24)

• The time is shortened henceforth (that is, as I suppose, since Christ's death and the call of the church) in order that the believer should hold all but Christ with a loose hand. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 7:15-24” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wivesc, be as not having any:

JND Translation Notes

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It may be translated "for the rest [I say it], in order that even they who have wives."

W. Kelly Translation

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But this I say, brethren, the season is straitened: henceforth that both those that have wives be as having none,