4. Husbands and wives, you are not masters of your own bodies. Each must do as the other has a right to demand in this important matter,
22-23. You know now that you are Christ's freedman and bought out of slavery at a heavy price. That freedom is everything, for those that were of free birth when called are now the slaves of Christ. Let then neither bond nor free be in spirit the slaves of men; that is all the faith demands;
24. in outward respects remain as you were.
25. Some are married when called into the faith; some have had wives, but have put them away; some are unmarried, and have never been married and have on no occasion indulged the sexual impulse, but are virgins.
26. To all these I repeat the same advice. Stay as you are, as you were before God called you;