1 Corinthians 7:17
Good News Translation
Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.

New Revised Standard Version
However that may be, let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you. This is my rule in all the churches.

Contemporary English Version
In every church I tell the people to stay as they were when the Lord Jesus chose them and God called them to be his own. Now I say the same thing to you.

New American Bible
Only, everyone should live as the Lord has assigned, just as God called each one. I give this order in all the churches.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach.

as God.

1 Corinthians 7:7 For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that.

Matthew 19:12 For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mothers womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it.

Romans 12:3-8 For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith. . . .

1 Peter 4:10,11 As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. . . .

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1 Corinthians 7:18,20,21,24 Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. . . .

so ordain.

1 Corinthians 4:17 For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus: as I teach every where in every church.

1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also.

2 Corinthians 11:28 Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.

Context
Live Your Calling
16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 17But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach. 18Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.…
Cross References
Romans 12:3
For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 4:17
For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus: as I teach every where in every church.

1 Corinthians 10:32
Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

1 Corinthians 11:16
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the Church of God.

1 Corinthians 11:34
If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.

1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of the saints.

2 Corinthians 8:18
We have sent also with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel through all the churches.

2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.

Galatians 1:22
And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ:

1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews:

2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure

1 Corinthians 7:16
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