Wherein he was called (η εκληθη). When he was called by God and saved, whether a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a freeman.

Let every man abide. Let him remain or continue.

In the same calling. The same occupation, profession, rank of life. We us…

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.—This is an emphatic repetition of the principle on which the previous pract…

The apostle’s first application of this principle is to the religio-national distinctions related to being Jews or Gentiles, being circumcised or u…

Every man in the calling in which. This is the source from which other things are derived: that everyone should be content with his ca…

Let every man abide in the same calling
Civil calling, station, and busine of life,

The rules of Christianity reach every condition. In every station of life, a person may live so as to be a credit to it. It is the duty of every Ch…