VERSE STUDY • KJV

1 Corinthians 7:20

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Read it in 5 translations

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

Each in the calling in which he was called—in this let him remain;

17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein 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 freeman: 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.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.