1 CORINTHIANS 7:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.”
Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them. — The principle is restated emphatically: remain in your klēsis (calling, position in life). This does not mandate perpetual social immobility but rather counsels against seeking status change as religiously necessary. The call to faith in Christ transcends and relativizes all earthly stations, freeing one to remain without shame or striving.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:20
And again, “Only as God has distributed to each man, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. Was any one called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was any called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called. Were you called, being a slave? Care not for it.” These things contribute nothing unto…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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