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31 You should use the things of the world without letting them become important to you. This is how you should live, because this world, the way it is now, will soon be gone.

32 I want you to be free from worry. A man who is not married is busy with the Lord’s work. He is trying to please the Lord. 33 But a man who is married is busy with things of the world. He is trying to please his wife.

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31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.(A)

32 I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs(B)—how he can please the Lord. 33 But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife—

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