New Revised Standard Version
and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

Contemporary English Version
It won't make any difference how much good you are getting from this world or how much you like it. This world as we know it is now passing away.

New American Bible
those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

use.

1 Corinthians 9:18 What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

Ecclesiastes 2:24,25 Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:12,13 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God. . . .

Ecclesiastes 11:2,9,10 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. . . .

Matthew 24:48-50 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming: . . .

Matthew 25:14-29 For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods; . . .

Luke 12:15-21 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth. . . .

Luke 16:1,2 And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. . . .

Luke 19:17-26 And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities. . . .

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

1 Timothy 6:17,18 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) . . .

James 5:1-5 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

for.

Psalm 39:6 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Psalm 73:20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

the fashion.