New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 7:21-28

21Were you called while a slave? 1Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather 2do that. 22For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is 3the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is 4Christ’s slave. 23 5You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. 24Brethren, 6each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

25Now concerning virgins I have 7no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who 8 9by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. 26I think then that this is good in view of the 10present 11distress, that 12it is good for a man 13to remain as he is. 27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have 14trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 7:21 Lit Let it not be a care to you ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 7:21 Lit use ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 7:22 John 8:32, 36; Philem 16 ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 7:22 Eph 6:6; Col 3:24; 1 Pet 2:16 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 7:23 1 Cor 6:20 ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 7:24 1 Cor 7:20 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 7:25 1 Cor 7:6 ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 7:25 Lit has had mercy shown on him by the Lord to be trustworthy ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 7:25 2 Cor 4:1; 1 Tim 1:13, 16 ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 7:26 Or impending ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 7:26 Luke 21:23; 2 Thess 2:2 ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 7:26 1 Cor 7:1, 8 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 7:26 Lit so to be ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 7:28 Lit tribulation in the flesh ↩

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