19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20. Let every man continue in the same calling in which he was called.
21. Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's free-man: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
23. Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
24. Brethren, let every man in the state in which he is called, continue in it with God.
25. Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy from 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.