1 Corinthians 7:24
Good News Translation
My friends, each of you should remain in fellowship with God in the same condition that you were when you were called.

New Revised Standard Version
In whatever condition you were called, brothers and sisters, there remain with God.

Contemporary English Version
Stay what you were when God chose you.

New American Bible
Brothers, everyone should continue before God in the state in which he was called.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

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Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

let.

1 Corinthians 7:17,20 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. . . .

abide.

1 Corinthians 10:31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.

Genesis 5:22-24 And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. . . .

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he should not die.

Colossians 3:23,24 Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men: . . .

Context
Live Your Calling
23You are bought with a price: be not made the bondslaves of men. 24Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God. 25Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:45
Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

1 Corinthians 7:20
Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

1 Corinthians 7:23
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