Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 7:21 in context
1 Corinthians 7:18–24
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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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Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
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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 called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
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You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
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Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
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