Brothers and sisters, each person, as responsible to God, should remain in the situation God called them to. — The final statement of the principle adds 'responsible to God' (para theō): accountability is vertical, not horizontal. One answers to God for faithfulness in one's station, not to society for advancement. This endows ordinary life—remaining a slave, remaining unmarried or married, remaining gentile or Jewish—with ultimate significance because it is lived before God.

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