Verse 18
1 Corinthians 7:18
Darby Translation
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Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
Original Language Text
greek
περιτετμημένος τις ἐκλήθη; μὴ ἐπισπάσθω· ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ ⸂κέκληταί τις⸃; μὴ περιτεμνέσθω.
English Translation
Has anyone been called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
1
But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a wo...
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but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.
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Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
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The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has n...
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Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to...
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But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].
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7
Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God (Elohim): one man thu...
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But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.
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But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn...
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But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;
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(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husban...
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But as to the rest, *I* say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and *she* consen...
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And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave [he...
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14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the...
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15
But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such [cases],...
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16
For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if t...
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However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God (Elohim) has called each, so let him walk; and thus...
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18
Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in un...
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Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God (Elohim)'s commandments.
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Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.
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21
Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free,...
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For the bondman that is called in [the] Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner [also] the freem...
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Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of men.
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Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God (Elohim).
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But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of [the] Lord; but I give my opinion, as having receiv...
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I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man to...
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Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.
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But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinne...
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But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not...
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and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as n...
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and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world pass...
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But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall plea...
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but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.
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There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lor...
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But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what [is] seemly,...
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But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his ag...
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But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has ju...
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So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.
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A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is fre...
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But she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that *I* also have God (E...
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