1 Corinthians 7:21

Called; converted to Christ.

Care not for it; be not so anxious to change your condition as to unfit you to discharge its duties.

If thou mayest be made free; in the original, If thou canst be free; that is, if thou art able in doing right to be free, use it rather; be free, because freedom is a better state than servitude. In it, persons can more generally own and search the Scriptures, worship God according to the dictates of an enlightened conscience, and discharge the duties which God requires of husbands and wives, parents and children, as rational, accountable, redeemed, immortal beings. Men should continue in the situation in which God has placed them, and in the business, if it be moral and right, to which they are accustomed; unless without committing sin they can change them for the better. If they can, they are bound to do it; and in a manner accordant with the revealed will of God.