14. for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
15. And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such [cases], and in peace hath God called us;
16. for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?
17. if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each--so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:
18. being circumcised--was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;
19. the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing--but a keeping of the commands of God.
20. Each in the calling in which he was called--in this let him remain;
21. a servant--wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free--use [it] rather;
22. for he who [is] in the Lord--having been called a servant--is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:
23. with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;
24. each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.
25. And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:
26. I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man that the matter be thus: --
27. Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28. But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.