1 Corinthians 7:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ Every one should remain in the state in which he was called.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Everyone should remain after God calls him in the station or condition of life in which the summons found him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Each person should stay in the situation they were in when they were called.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Let each and every one remain in the same calling to which he was called.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

1 Corinthians 7:20 Cross References

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home.

1 Corinthians 7:17

Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

1 Corinthians 7:27

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living.