1 Corinthians 7:17-40 If not to each other as distributed the Lord, each one even as has called the God so let him walk. And thus in the congregations all I appoint.

Diaglott⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ If not to each other as distributed the Lord, each one even as has called the God so let him walk. And thus in the congregations all I appoint. ¹⁸ Having been circumcised any one who called, not let him be uncircumcised; in uncircumcision any one was called, not let him be circumcised. ¹⁹ The circumcision nothing is, and the uncircumcision nothing is, but keeping of commandments of God. ²⁰ Each one in the calling in which he was called, in this let him remain. ²¹ A slave wast thou called, not to thee let it be a care; but if also thou art able free to become, rather use. ²² He for in Lord being called a slave a freedman of Lord is; in like manner also the freeman being called, a slave is of Anointed. ²³ For a price you were bought; not become you slaves of men. ²⁴ Each one in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God. ²⁵ Concerning and the virgins, a commandment of Lord not I have; a judgment but I give, as having obtained mercy from Lord faithful to be. ²⁶ I declare then, this well to be because of the having been present distress, that well for a man the true to be. ²⁷ Art thou having been bound to a wife, not seek thou a release; hast thou been loosed from a wife, not seek thou a wife. ²⁸ If but even thou shouldst have married, not thou didst sin; and if should have married the virgin, not she sinned; affliction but in the flesh shall have those such like; I but you spake. ²⁹ This but I say, brethren, the season having been shortened the remainder is; that both those having wives, as not having should be; ³⁰ and those weeping; as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing; ³¹ and those using the world this, as not abusing. Passes by for the form of the world this. ³² I wish but you free from anxieties to be. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; ³³ hew but having married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife. ³⁴ Has been divided the wife and the virgin; the unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, so that may be holy both in body and in spirit; the but one having married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband. ³⁵ This and for the of you yourselves benefit I say; not that a snare to you I may throw, but for the decorum and devotedness to the Lord without solicitude. ³⁶ If but any one to behave indecently toward the virgin of himself thinks, if she may be beyond age, and to it is fitting to be; what he wishes let him do, not he sins; let them marry. ³⁷ Who but he has stood settled in the heart, not having necessity control but has concerning the own will, and this has resolved in the the heart of himself the to keep the himself virgin, well does. ³⁸ So that even he giving in marriage, well does; and he not marrying, better does. ³⁹ A wife is bound for so long time may live the husband of her; if but should fall asleep the husband of her, free she is to whom she wills to be married, only in Lord. ⁴⁰ Happier but she is, if thus she should remain according to the my judgment; I think and even I spirit of God to have.