1 Corinthians 7:24

World English Bible (2000)

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:20 : 20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Col 3:23-24 : 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
  • Gen 5:22-24 : 22 Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
  • 1 Cor 7:17 : 17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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  • 1 Cor 7:15-23
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    15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

    16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

    17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

    18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

    19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

    20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

    21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

    22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

    23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

  • 1 Cor 7:6-8
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    6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

    7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

    8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

  • 1 Cor 7:25-27
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    25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

    26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

    27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
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    1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:35-37
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    72%

    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

    36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

    37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

  • Rom 14:12
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    12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-12
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    10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

    11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

    12 But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7 or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Rom 14:5
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    5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

  • 1 Cor 7:32
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    32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

  • Rom 14:7-8
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    7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

    8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

  • 1 Pet 1:15
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    15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

    5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

  • 1 Cor 10:24
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    24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

  • Eph 4:1
    69%

    1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

  • 1 Cor 16:13
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    13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

  • 1 Thess 5:24
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    24 He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

  • 1 Cor 1:9
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    9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

  • 2 Tim 2:4
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    4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

  • 1 Cor 7:39-40
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    39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

    40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 15:58
    68%

    58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

  • Eph 6:7
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    7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.