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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Corinthians 7
²¹ Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.
²² For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ’s slave.
²³ You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
²⁴ Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.
²⁵ Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.
²⁶ I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
²⁸ But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.
²⁹ But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;
³⁰ and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;
³¹ and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.