New English Translation

1 Corinthians 7:28-32 New English Translation (NET)

28. But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

29. And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

30. those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,

31. those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

32. And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.