1 Corinthians 7:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.

However that may be, let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you. This is my rule in all the churches.

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

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

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