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What is Your "Calling"?
Scholars note two views on "calling." Some, like Charles Ellicott, argue it refers to your state when God "called" you to salvation (e.g., Jewish, Gentile, slave, free). Others see it as your profession. The first view, supported by the context of circumcision and slavery, means your external status doesn't need to change to be a complete Christian.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 7:20
18th Century
Theologian
Let every man abide. Let him remain or continue.
In the same calling. The same occupation, profession, rank of life. We us…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 7:20
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.
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 7:20
19th Century
Bishop
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…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 7:20
The apostle’s first application of this principle is to the religio-national distinctions related to being Jews or Gentiles, being circumcised or u…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 7:20
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 7:20
17th Century
Pastor
Let every man abide in the same calling
Civil calling, station, and business of life,
wherein he …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 7:17–24
17th Century
Minister
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…