14. Both will be sanctified by the presence of the truth in the household, and likewise the children also, and who knows? probably the one that has faith will save the other.
17. Further, in other matters besides marriage, I enjoin the same rule as that which I have just explained.
18. After the truth has come to you, make no outward change in your manner of life, that is to say, in such matters as the circumcision or uncircumcision.
21. Similarly, if you were a slave when called, do not seek to obtain manumission, but even prefer to continue in the old calling.
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;