1 Corinthians 7:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

1 Corinthians 7:31 —

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1 John 2:17
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Ecclesiastes 9:7-10
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. …

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Commentary

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. not abusing it--not abusing it by an overmuch using of it. The meaning of “abusing” here is, not so much perverting, as using it to the full [Bengel]. We are to use it, “not to take our fill” of its pursuits as our chief aim (compare Lu 10:40-42). As the planets while turning on their own axis, yet revolve round the sun; so while we do our part in our own worldly sphere, God is to be the cente…