1 Corinthians 7:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ Were you a slave when called? Never mind. But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. But if you are able to gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather.

Common English Bible

²¹ If you were a slave when you were called, don’t let it bother you. But if you are actually able to be free, take advantage of the opportunity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

1 Corinthians 7:21 Krydshenvisninger

Luke 12:29

And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind.

Luke 21:34

“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;

1 Corinthians 12:13

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 7:20

Every one should remain in the state in which he was called.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.

Galatians 3:28

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:11

Not that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.

Philippians 4:6

Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Colossians 3:11

Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never fail you nor forsake you.”

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.