18Were you Jewish at the time God called you? Don''t try to remove the evidence. Were you non-Jewish at the time of your call? Don''t become a Jew.
19Being Jewish isn''t the point. The really important thing is obeying God''s call, following his commands.
1 Corinthians 7 is Paul’s extended pastoral response to questions the Corinthian church had asked about marriage, singleness, and sexuality. The chapter navigates a tension: the Corinthians lived in a hyper-sexualized culture (Corinth), yet some had swung to the opposite extreme,
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