1 Corinthians 7:31 (WEB)
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Catechism · 1
“Virginity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven is an unfolding of baptismal grace, a powerful sign of the supremacy of the bond with Christ and of the ardent expectation of his return, a sign which also recalls that marriage is a reality of this present age which is passing away.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 12:25; 1 Cor 7:31.
Fathers and councils · 32
Irenaeus of Lyons
“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 this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
Read the whole comment“Now this is what has been said by the apostle: “For the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
Read the whole comment“For neither is the substance nor the essence of the creation annihilated (for faithful and true is He who has established it), but “the fashion of the world passeth away;” that is, those things among which transgression has occurred, since man has grown old in them.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Cor. 7:31.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Cor. 7:31.” — the author cites it
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Origen
“And Paul seems to confirm the latter view, when he says, “For the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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“That universe which is bounded by heaven and earth is also called a world, as Paul declares: “For the fashion of this world will pass away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis III.6Book III
“…liberty of the children of God,” manifestly announces the end of the world; as he does also when he again says, “The fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…perchance even selling all their goods and distributing to the poor, or “possessing as though they possessed not, and using this world as though not using it.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 30, 31.
Read the whole comment“What is this?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–32.
Read the whole comment“…the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit: but she that is married, is anxious about the things of the world, how to please her husband.”” — editor's note: Ver. 29–34
Read the whole comment“I would have you be without carefulness.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–32.
Read the whole comment“I would have you be without anxiety.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31, 32.
Read the whole comment“…and not common to the Hebrews and us,—I mean the evangelic and apostolic books,—the following expressions are used: “The figure of this world passeth away;” “The world passeth away;” “Heaven and earth shall pass away,”—expressions which are, I fancy, somewhat milder than “They shall perish.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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Basil the Great
““For the fashion of this world passeth away” and “Heaven and earth shall pass away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
Read the whole comment“But, for my part, to every one who is thinking about marriage I testify that, “the fashion of this world passeth away,” and the time is short: “it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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John Chrysostom
“…of us who have [riches] so use them as Paul commanded. (“They that have,” saith he, “as though they had not, and they that use this world as not abusing it”— 1 Cor. vii. 29, 31 ): that we may obtain the good things promised.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“If having “wives,” we “be as though we had none,” if we rejoice not over our “possessions,” if we “use the world as not abusing it.” ( 1 Cor. vii. 29, 31.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For in fact all our laws are common to the monks also, except marriage; yea rather, even with respect to this, Paul commands us to put ourselves altogether on a level with them; saying, “For the fashion of this world passeth away:” that “they that have wives be as though they had none.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31, 29.
Read the whole comment“By this He removed many other difficulties also, all which things Paul intimated by one word, saying, “For the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
Read the whole comment“The Lord is at hand, be careful for nothing;”and again, “The fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Hold fast then, my dear friend, to the apostolic doctrines, for “He that shall come will come, and will not tarry,” and “He shall render to every man according to his deeds,” for “the fashion of this world passeth away,” and the truth shall be made manifest.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31
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Tertullian
“He cannot hope for the kingdom of the heavens, whose finger or wand abuses the heaven.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. vii. 31, “They that use this world as not abusing it.” The astrologer abuses the heavens by putting the heavenly bodies to a sinful use.
Read the whole comment“Yet (it must be) in accordance with the apostle, who warns us “to use this world as if we abuse it not; for the fashion of this world is passing away.”” — editor's note: Mundo; κόσμῳ. See 1 Cor. vii. 31.
Read the whole comment“But, you say, even the world is the work of God, and yet “the fashion of this world passeth away,” as the apostle himself testifies; nor must it be predetermined that the world will be restored, simply because it is the work of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 30, 31.
Read the whole comment“…that buy not, and they who possess as they who possess not, and they who use this world as they that use it not; for the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–31.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“And again, The fashion of this world shall pass away.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 31.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He gives laws for slaves and masters, rulers and ruled, husbands and wives, parents and children, marriage and celibacy, self-discipline and indulgence, wisdom and ignorance, circumcision and uncircumcision, Christ and the world, the flesh and the spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3, 8, 25, 31.
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Leo the Great
“…not; and those that buy as though they possessed not; and those that use this world as though they used it not; for the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–31. In the last clause but one, the Lat. runs, qui utuntur hoc mundo tanquam non utantur (as also the Vulg. and the margin of R.V., “(as not)…
Read the whole comment“For the fashion of this world passes away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–31.
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Gregory the Great
“In the same place also a little afterwards he aptly adds, For the fashion of this world passeth away (v. 31); as if he had said plainly, Love not the world abidingly, since the world which ye love cannot itself abide.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 38
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36 and 1 other place.
Cited together in De Principiis III.6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 160.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in De Principiis III.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 160.
Cited together in Letters Letter 160.
Cited together in Letters Letter 160.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.3.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.3 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.3.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 9:23–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in De Principiis III.6.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.3.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 160.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in Catechism §1619.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 9:23–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 9:23–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 16:14–18 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 16:14–18 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 16:14–18 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.
Cited together in De Principiis I.6.
Cited together in De Principiis I.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.36.