1 Corinthians 7:21 Cross References - WPNT

²¹ Were you called while a slave? Don’t let it bother you, but if you can really become free, do so.

⁴⁰ Well Martha was distracted with much serving; so coming up she said: “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Do please tell her to help me!” ⁴¹ But in answer Jesus said to her: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and agitated about many things,

²⁹ Do not concentrate on what you may eat or what you may drink; do not be anxious.

³⁴ “But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly.

¹³ For we also were all baptized into one body by one Spirit—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

²⁸ —there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; all of you are one in Christ Jesus —

⁶ Don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

¹¹ I am not saying this because of lack, since I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

¹¹ where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.

¹ As many as are under the yoke of slavery should consider their own owners to be worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and doctrine not be slandered. ² Those who have owners who are believers must not disregard them because they are brothers; instead they must serve them even better, because those receiving the good service are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things. ³ If anyone teaches differently and does not consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine that accords with godliness,

⁵ Your way of life should be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, because He Himself has said: “I absolutely will not desert you; I most certainly will not abandon you.”

¹⁸ Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unscrupulous. ¹⁹ For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God someone endures grief, suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if upon sinning and being beaten you endure patiently? But if upon doing good and suffering you endure patiently, this is commendable before God. ²¹ Now you have been called to this, really, because Christ also suffered in our behalf, leaving you an example that you should follow in His footsteps: ²² who did not commit sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth; ²³ who being reviled did not revile in return, suffering did not threaten but committed it to Him who judges righteously; ²⁴ who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, so that we, having died to those sins, might live for the righteousness; by whose wound you were healed.

⁷ casting all your care upon Him, because He does the caring for you.