Common English Bible CEB
New Revised Standard NRS
29 This is what I'm saying, brothers and sisters: The time has drawn short. From now on, those who have wives should be like people who don't have them.
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I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,
30 Those who are sad should be like people who aren't crying. Those who are happy should be like people who aren't happy. Those who buy something should be like people who don't have possessions.
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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 no possessions,
31 Those who use the world should be like people who aren't preoccupied with it, because this world in its present form is passing away.
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and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
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