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1 Corinthians 7:18
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16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will asave your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?  

Live as You Are Called

17 But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And aso I ordain in all the churches.  
18 Was anyone called while circumcised? aLet him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.  
19 aCircumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but bkeeping the commandments of God is what matters.  
20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.
21 Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.
22 For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is athe Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is bChrist’s slave.  
23 aYou were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.  
24 Brethren, let each one remain with aGod in that state in which he was called.  

To the Unmarried and Widows

25 Now concerning virgins: aI have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one bwhom the Lord in His mercy has made ctrustworthy.  
26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—athat it is good for a man to remain as he is:  
27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
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1 Corinthians 7:18

Is any man called? - Does anyone become a Christian? See the note at I Corinthians 1:26.

Being circumcised - Being a native-born Jew, or having become a Jewish proselyte, and having submitted to the initiatory rite of the Jewish religion.

Let him not become uncircumcised - This could not be literally done. But the apostle refers here to certain efforts which were made to remove the marks of circumcision which were often attempted by those who were ashamed of having been circumcised. The practice is often alluded to by Jewish writers, and is described by them; compare I Corinthians 1:15. It is not decorous or proper here to show how this was done. The process is described in Cels. de Med. 7:25; see Grotuns and Bloomfield.

Is any called in uncircumcision? - A Gentile, or one who had not been circumcised.

Let him not be circumcised - The Jewish rites are not binding, and are not to be enjoined on those who have been converted from the Gentiles; see the notes at Romans 2:27-29.




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