New Revised Standard Version
Let each of you remain in the condition in which you were called.

Contemporary English Version
So don't try to change what you were when God chose you.

New American Bible
Everyone should remain in the state in which he was called.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

abide.

1 Corinthians 7:17,21-23 But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach. . . .

Proverbs 27:8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

Luke 3:10-14 And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do? . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

2 Thessalonians 3:12 Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.