And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying.
1 Corinthians 7:21 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. Even if you can gain your freedom, make use of your present condition now more than ever. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather. Common English Bible 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 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 Wast thou called, being a bondman? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. |
And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying.
“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly,
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.
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 of Christ.
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.
Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have.
Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”