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1 Corinthians 7:21 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. "
1 Corinthians 7:21
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.
20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
23 You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
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1 Corinthians 7:1
"Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman."
1 Corinthians 7:2
"But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."
1 Corinthians 7:3
"Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband."
1 Corinthians 7:4
"The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does."
1 Corinthians 7:5
"Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control."
1 Corinthians 7:6
"But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment."
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