21Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.


In Context

18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

1 Corinthians 7:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:21Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:21Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble you--although if you can gain your freedom, do so.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:21Wast thou called, being a bondman ? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:21Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:21Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:21Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: but if thou canst become free, use it rather.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:21Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:21a servant — wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free — use it rather;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:21Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.