19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20. Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.
21. Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.
22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
23. You are bought with a price; be not the servants of men.
24. Brethren, let every man, however he is called, therein abide with God.
25. Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26. I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27. Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.