19. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20. Let each abide in the same calling in which he was called.
21. Art thou called being a slave? care not for it; but if thou may be made free, use it rather.
22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord’s freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s slave.
23. Ye are bought with a price; do not make yourselves the slaves of men.
24. Each one, brothers, in that state in which he was called, let him abide with God.
25. Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, yet I give my advice, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26. I hold, therefore, this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be thus: