Let every one remain in that condition of life in which he was when the Call came to him.
In any case, a man should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to him, and in which he was when God called him. This is the rule that I lay down in every Church.
Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.
Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;
All such people we urge, and entreat, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to attend quietly to their business, and earn their own living.