1 Corinthians 7:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of it.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Wast thou called, being a bondman? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

1 Corinthians 7:21 Cross References

Luke 12:29

And do not keep seeking what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying.

Luke 21:34

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,

1 Corinthians 12:13

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

1 Corinthians 7:20

Let each of you remain in the condition in which you were called.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave belonging to Christ.

Galatians 3:28

There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:11

Not that I am referring to being in need, for I have learned to be content with whatever I have.

Philippians 4:6

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Colossians 3:11

In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, enslaved and free, but Christ is all and in all!

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.