15. But if the unbeliever departs, let that one depart. A brother or a sister is not bound in such cases. God has called us to peace.
16. 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?
17. But as God has given to every man and as the Lord has called every man, so let him walk. This I command in all churches.
18. Is any man called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is any man called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.
19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God is everything.
20. Let each man remain in the same condition in which he was called.
21. Were you called while a servant? Do not worry about it. But if you may become free, do so.
22. For he who is called in the Lord while a servant is the Lord’s freeman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ’s servant.
23. You were bought at a price. Do not be the servants of men.
24. Brothers, let every man, in whatever condition he is called, remain there with God.