Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 7:21 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Art thou called {being} a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use {it} rather.”
1 Corinthians 7:21
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Art thou called {being} a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use {it} rather.
For he that is called in the Lord, {being} a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, {being} free, is Christ's servant. {freeman: Gr. made free}
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
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