28. But if you do marry, you haven’t sinned; and if someone who hasn’t been married gets married, they haven’t sinned. But married people will have a hard time, and I’m trying to spare you that.
29. This is what I’m saying, brothers and sisters: The time has drawn short. From now on, those who have wives should be like people who don’t have them.
30. Those who are sad should be like people who aren’t crying. Those who are happy should be like people who aren’t happy. Those who buy something should be like people who don’t have possessions.
31. Those who use the world should be like people who aren’t preoccupied with it, because this world in its present form is passing away.
32. I want you to be free from concerns. A man who isn’t married is concerned about the Lord’s concerns—how he can please the Lord.
33. But a married man is concerned about the world’s concerns—how he can please his wife.