Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.
But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one, so let him walk: and so in all churches I teach.
And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you want nothing of any man's.
Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.
Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.