21. Are you a servant who has been called? Do not be concerned about it. But if you ever have the ability to be free, make use of it.
22. For any servant who has been called in the Lord is free in the Lord. Similarly, any free person who has been called is a servant in Christ.
23. You have been bought with a price. Do not be willing to become the servants of men.
24. Brothers, let each one, in whatever state he was called, remain in that state with God.
25. Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord. But I give counsel, as one who has obtained the mercy of the Lord, so as to be faithful.
26. Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am.
27. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free of a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28. But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin has married, she has not sinned. Even so, such as these will have the tribulation of the flesh. But I would spare you from this.