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Use, Don't 'Use Up'
Scholars clarify that the phrase 'abusing it' doesn't just mean sinful misuse. The original Greek term suggests 'using to the full' or 'using up.' The warning is against becoming so engrossed in worldly things, even good and necessary ones, that they consume our hearts and hinder our spiritual focus. We are to use the world's resources without being enslaved by them.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 7:31
18th Century
Theologian
And they that use this world. Those who make a necessary and proper use of it to furnish clothing, food, medicine, protection, etc. It is …
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 7:31
Those that use the world (ο χρωμενο τον κοσμον). Old verb χραομα, usually with the instrumental case, but the accusative occurs in…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 7:31
19th Century
Bishop
Not abusing it.—We can scarcely find a better word in English than “abusing” by which to render the Greek of this passage. But thi…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 7:31
The apostle explains that the time for doing the Lord’s work is short and is coming to an end. This is not necessarily a reference to the second co…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 7:31
16th Century
Theologian
And they that use this world. In the first clause there is the participle χρώμενοι (using); in the second, ther…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 7:31
17th Century
Pastor
And they that use this world, as not abusing it
Such as have a large affluence of the things of this world, should u…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 7:25–35
17th Century
Minister
Considering the distress of those times, the unmarried state was best. Nevertheless, the apostle does not condemn marriage. How contrary to the apo…