'1Cor 7:17-24

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The life of God’s choosing (1Co 7:17-24)

God wants Christians to be patient and to accept that their current state of affairs is God’s will for them for the present (1Co 7:17).

Believers may have differences in marital, national or social status, but this should make no difference to their spiritual well-being. The important issue is obedience to God’s commandments. Even those who are slaves should feel no inferiority, but if they can be free, so much the better (1Co 7:18-21).

More important than status in the world is status before God. Believers who are slaves in the world have the liberty of God’s children, while believers who are free citizens in the world are God’s slaves. God has freed all believers from the bondage of sin. They should not allow themselves to be enslaved again through following the ways of an ungodly society (1Co 7:22-24).