1 Corinthians 7:21-28

21Were you called as a slave? Do not let it concern you. But if you are also able to become free, take advantage of that. 22For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave, is 1the Lord’s freed person; likewise the one who was called as free, is 2Christ’s slave. 233You were bought for a price; do not become slaves of people. 24Brothers and sisters, 4each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

25Now concerning virgins, I have 5no command of the Lord, but I am offering direction as one who 67by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. 26I think, then, that this is good in view of the 8present 9distress, that 10it is good for a man 11to 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 people as yourselves will have 12trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.