📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 7:23
What does 1 Corinthians 7:23 mean?
"You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men."
— 1 Corinthians 7:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
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.
You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
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