1st Corinthians Chapter 7 verse 31 Holy Bible
and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
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And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.
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and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.
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And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
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and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
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and those using this world, as not using `it' up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - As not abusing it; rather, as not using it to the full - not draining dry the cup of earthly advantages (comp. 1 Corinthians 9:18). Like Gideon's true heroes, we must not fling ourselves down to drink greedily of the river of earthly gifts, but drink them sparingly, and as it were with the palm of the hand. The fashion of this world passeth away. So St. John says, "The world passeth away, and the lust thereof" (1 John 1:18). It is but as the shifting scene of a theatre, or as a melting vapour (James 4:14).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) 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, and not, as in the original here, an abuse arising from over-much use. All the things mentioned in this series by the Apostle are right things; and the warning is against being in bondage to those things which are in themselves right and good, and not against any criminal use of them. Though they are not wrong in themselves, we are not to become slaves of them; we are to renounce them, "so as not to follow nor be led by them."For the fashion of this world passeth away.--Better, for the outward form of this world is passing away (the word translated "fashion" occurs only here and in Philippians 2:8). The allusion is not a merely general reference to the ephemeral nature of things temporal, but arises from the Apostle's conviction that the last days were already commencing, when the outward temporal form of things was being superseded (Romans 8:19; Revelation 21:1). The word "for" does not introduce a reason for the immediately preceding injunction, but carries us back to the previous statement in 1Corinthians 7:29 : "the time is short," the intervening series of illustrative exhortations being parenthetical.
