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Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
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Live Your Faith Where You Are
Scholars explain this verse introduces a foundational principle: your conversion to Christianity does not require you to change your external circumstances (like marital status or social class). Instead, Paul instructs believers to remain in the situation they were in when God called them to faith. The goal is to live out your faith and be a witness for Christ within your current life, not to use faith as a reason to disrupt it.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But as God hath distributed, etc. As God has divided—emerisen; that is, given, imparted to anyone. As God has given grac…
Only (ε μη). This use of ε μη as an elliptical condition is very common (7:5; Galatians 1:7,19; [Reference Romans 14:14…
19th Century
Anglican
But as God hath distributed . . .—Regarding 1 Corinthians 7:16 as a kind of parenthesis, these words follow o…
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Paul now expands his thought of the Christian’s call to other areas besides that of marital status. Christians should live for the Lord wherever th…
16th Century
Protestant
Unless everyone, according as God has dispensed His grace, etc. Such is the literal meaning; I have only, in my rendering, used the nomina…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But as God has distributed to every man This text is so placed, and the words of it so expressed, as that it may hav…
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