Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.