Verse 21
1 Corinthians 7:21
World English Bible
21
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
Original Language Text
greek
Δοῦλος ἐκλήθης; μή σοι μελέτω· ἀλλ’ εἰ καὶ δύνασαι ἐλεύθερος γενέσθαι, μᾶλλον χρῆσαι.
English Translation
Were you called as a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can become free, rather use that.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own...
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Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
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The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’...
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Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fas...
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But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God (Elohim), one of th...
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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
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But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
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(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the h...
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But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to li...
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The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her...
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the...
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Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bonda...
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For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether...
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17
Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God (Elohim) has called each, so let him walk. So...
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18
Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called...
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19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God (...
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20
Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
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21
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to bec...
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For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was ca...
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23
You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
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24
Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God (Elohim...
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25
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has o...
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Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as...
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Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
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But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have o...
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But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as t...
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and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice...
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and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away....
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But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of t...
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but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
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There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things o...
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This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and t...
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But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flow...
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But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and ha...
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So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marri...
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A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to...
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But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God (Elohim)...
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