1st Corinthians Chapter 7 verse 20 Holy Bible
Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.
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Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.
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Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.
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Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
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Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Let every man abide in the same calling, etc. In accordance with this general principle, which illustrates the distinction between Christianity and violent social revolutions, St. John the Baptist had not bidden publicans or soldiers to abandon their callings, but to do their duty in that state of life to which God had called them (Luke 3:12-14). The "calling" alluded to is not what is described as "a vocation," a calling in life, but the condition in which we are when we are called by God (comp. 1 Corinthians 1:26; Ephesians 1:18; Ephesians 4:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.--This is an emphatic repetition of the principle on which the previous practical instruction is based. "Calling" must not here be regarded in the modern sense of profession or condition in life; it is nowhere so used in the New Testament, but always signifies God's calling of us. (See Romans 11:29; Ephesians 1:18.) Continue to be Christians of the kind which God's call to Christianity made you. If you were circumcised--and so God's call into the Christian Church made you a circumcised Christian--continue so; don't do anything which would seem to imply that some other change in addition to your "call" was necessary to complete your admission to the Church.
