19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments.
20. Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.
21. Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.
22. For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.
23. Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of men.
24. Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.
25. But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26. I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.
27. Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.
28. But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.
29. But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:
30. and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;
31. and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.
32. But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;
33. but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.