1 CORINTHIANS 7:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.”
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.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:24
“You were bought with a price: become not bondservants of men.” This saying is addressed not to slaves only but also to free men. For it is possible for one who is a slave not to be a slave; and for one who is a freeman to be a slave. “And how can one be a slave and not a slave?” When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one that is a slave to men can be free. Or again, how does one that is free become a…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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