First Reading
1 Corinthians 7:25-31
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
25Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord; but I give guidance, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.
26I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.
27Art you bound to a wife$1 seek not to be loosed. Art you loosed from a wife$1 seek not a wife.
28But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she has not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have trouble of the flesh. But I spare you.
29This therefore I say, brothers and sisters; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none;
30And those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they had not;
31And those who use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away.