Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 7:17 in context
1 Corinthians 7:14–20
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
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Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
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For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
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Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
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Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
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Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.
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Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
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