29. I tell you, brothers, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them,
30. those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning,
31. those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.
32. I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
33. But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,