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Verse 31. _AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD_] Let them who have earthly
property or employments discharge conscientiously their duties, from a
conviction of the instability of earthly things. Make a _righ...
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AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD - That make a necessary and proper use of
it to furnish raiment, food, clothing, medicine, protection, etc. It
is right so to use the world, for it was made for these purp...
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4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._
2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10).
3. Abiding in the Different C...
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Paul now passes to the case of virgins, on which the church had
invited his judgment. The section is one of peculiar difficulty. It is
generally thought that Paul is dealing with the relations of a fa...
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COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
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WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ App-129.
ABUSING. using to the full. Greek. _katachraomai._ Only here und 1
Corinthians 9:18. The force of _kata_ is intensive. Compare
_katesthio,_ devour, eat up (2 Corinthi...
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General Instructions Concerning the Marriage of Virgins
25. _virgins_ i.e. unmarried women. St Paul now returns to the
question of marriage. But before he enters upon the question of the
marriage of...
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE MARRIAGE OF VIRGINS....
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_CONCERNING BEING SINGLE OR REMARRIED 1 CORINTHIANS 7:25-40:_ The
present distress lead Paul to believe that being single was preferred
to marriage at that time. There was severe persecution and being...
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ΧΡΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΧΡΆΟΜΑΙ
(G5530) использовать, пользоваться. Об
употреблении _асс._ с этим гл., который
обычно управляет instr. в качестве
дополнения, _см._ RG, 476.
ΚΑΤΑΧΡΏΜΕΝΟ...
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DISCOURSE: 1962
MODERATION IN THE USE OF EARTHLY THINGS INCULCATED
1 Corinthians 7:29. _This I say, brethren, the time is short: it
remaineth, that both they that hare wives be as though they had non...
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AS NOT ABUSING IT.— The word Καταχρωμενοι does not here
signify _abusing_ in our sense of the word, but _intently
using,_—not carrying the enjoyments of it to any excess; _for the_
whole scheme and _f...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
The Pressures of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:17-40)
17 Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to
him, and in which God has called him. This is my rul...
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And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of
this world passeth away.
NOT ABUSING IT - by overmuch using of it. "Abusing" here is not so
much perverting, as using it to the...
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31 The transient, fleeting character of all of this world's
relationships and experiences should warn us not to let them take an
undue hold upon our hearts. We cannot but use the world to a limited
ex...
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7:31 own; (d-14) See Note, ch. 9.18....
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_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_
The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St.
Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language
in reply is guarded; he...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 7
ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2
V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is
good for a man not to marry. V2 B...
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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, an...
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CHAPTER 11
MARRIAGE
THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on
this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage
as he found it, as it existed among those...
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§ 23. ADVANTAGES OF THE SINGLE STATE. Paul's opinion had been asked
particularly, in this connexion, about the case of _marriageable
daughters_ (1 Corinthians 7:25): was it wise for fathers, as things...
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COUNSEL FOR TIMES OF EMERGENCY
1 Corinthians 7:25
The _virgin_ here referred to is probably the young woman who was
engaged to be married, and the counsel is expressly defined to be
advice, and give...
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Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning
which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions.
These answers contain principles of permanent application.
T...
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Is Celibacy Preferable To Marriage?
McGarvey thinks the third question must have been, "Is celibacy or
virginity perferable to marriage?" Paul was inspired in his judgment
(7:40; 14:37), so we can re...
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And they that use this (c) world, as not abusing [it]: for the (d)
fashion of this world passeth away.
(c) Those things which God gives us here.
(d) The guise, and shape, and fashion: by which he sh...
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: The present state of things....
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(18) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be
circumcised. (19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing, bu...
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As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle
give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle
speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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_THE PASSING WORLD_
‘The fashion of this world passeth away.’
1 Corinthians 7:31
We can well imagine that St. Paul in writing these words of his
Epistle to the Corinthian Church was thinking of the...
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31._And they that use this world _In the _first _clause there is the
participle χρώμενοι (_using_,) in the _second_, there is a
compound of it — καταχρώμενοι (_abusing_.) Now the
preposition κατα in a...
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The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the
subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the
relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
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AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD, AS NOT ABUSING IT,.... Such as have a
large affluence of the things of this world, should use them in a
moderate and temperate manner; should not squander them away
extra...
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And they that use this world, as not abusing _it_ : for the fashion of
this world passeth away.
Ver. 31. _As not abusing it_] Not shooting our affections overly far
into it. David was as a weaned chi...
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_But this I say_, &c. But though I leave every one to his own liberty
in the case now mentioned, yet here is what is necessary for all to
observe. _The time_ Of our abode here, and of these worldly
en...
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NOT ABUSING IT; not using it to excess, depending upon it, or seeking
your chief good in it.
THE FASHION; circumstances and condition of earthly things.
PASSETH AWAY; like a shadow or dream. Psalms...
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No earthly ties should hinder the service of God:...
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Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious
importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been
questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to
raise...
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AND THOSE THAT USE THE WORLD, AS NOT USING IT TO THE FULL: FOR THE
FASHION OF THIS WORLD PASSETH AWAY.
'as not using it to the full' -'that is, be "not engrossed" or
"absorbed" in it.' (Fee p. 341)...
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25-35 Considering the distress of those times, the unmarried state
was best. Notwithstanding, the apostle does not condemn marriage. How
opposite are those to the apostle Paul who forbid many to marr...
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AND THEY THAT USE THIS WORLD, AS NOT ABUSING IT: while you have any
thing of this world's goods you may use them, yea, you must use them,
without them you cannot live in the world; but the considerati...
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and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the
fashion of this world passeth away. [At the time of Paul's writing, a
great social convulsion was expected. The persecutions under Ne...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
And they are also unacquainted with [the meaning of] the passing away
of the heaven and earth; but Paul was not ignorant of it when he
declared, "For the figure of t...
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1 Corinthians 7:31 and G2532 use G5530 (G5740) this G5127 world G2889
as G5613 not G3361 misusing G2710 (G5740) For G1063 form G4976 this
G5129 world G2889 away G3855 (G5719)
use - 1 Corinthians 9:18...
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‘But this I say brothers, the time is shortened that from now on
both those who have wives be as those who have none, and those who
weep as those who do not weep, and those who rejoice as those who do...
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_Answers to Corinthian Questions regarding Marriage,_ 25-40.
1 Corinthians 7:25. NOW CONCERNING VIRGINS I HAVE NO COMMANDMENT OF
THE LORD: BUT I GIVE MY JUDGMENT, AS ONE THAT HATH OBTAINED MERCY OF
T...
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THOSE THAT USE THE WORLD
(ο χρωμενο τον κοσμον). Old verb χραομα,
usually with the instrumental case, but the accusative occurs in some
Cretan inscriptions and in late writers according to a tenden...
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WORLD
Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (2 Corinthians 7:10); (John
7:7).
(_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _...
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1 Corinthians 7:29
I. Let us contrast the world's treatment of sorrow with that of
Christ. Here we use the word world in the widest sense the world of
which the Apostle John speaks as including all th...
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CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile
believers.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul.
CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing
of...
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It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had
written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its
obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
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THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME LEFT. Paul may mean: (1) the persecutions which
Nero would bring against Christians (in less than ten years); (2) the
Jewish Wars (in which armed terrorists would rise against R...
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_Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord._
CONCERNING VIRGINS AND WIDOWS
The apostle advises--
I. The unmarried of both sexes. As he has argued against the
disruption of the ties b...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:29 See 1 Corinthians 10:11.
Paul is not saying that Jesus will definitely return within the
Corinthians’ lifetimes. Elsewhere, he encourages Christians to
continu...
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CHAPTER 7
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the
laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy
i. The first question is...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
A.
1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle;
the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal
inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marr...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 7:1
_Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._
1 CORINTHIANS 7:1
_The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._
1 CORINTHIANS 7:1
NOW CONCERNING...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I
Corinthians.
The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a
problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
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1 Corinthians 9:18; 1 John 2:17; 1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Timothy
6:17; 1 Timothy 6:18; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Ecclesiastes 11:10;
Ecclesiastes 11:2;...
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And they that use this world, as not abusing it — Not seeking
happiness in it, but in God: using every thing therein only in such a
manner and degree as most tends to the knowledge and love of God. Fo...