21 Art thou called being a slave? care not for it; but if thou may be made free, use it rather.
22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord’s freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s slave.
23 Ye are bought with a price; do not make yourselves the slaves of men.
24 Each one, brothers, in that state in which he was called, let him abide with God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, yet I give my advice, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26 I hold, therefore, this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be thus:
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.