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For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
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But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.
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Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.
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Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
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Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.
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Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.
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For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ's slave.
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You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
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Brethren, let each one remain with God in that state in which he was called.
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Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy.
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I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress--that it is good for a man to remain as he is: