Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.
New American Standard Bible
Brethren,
King James Version
Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Holman Bible
Brothers, each person should remain with God in whatever situation he was called.
International Standard Version
Brothers, everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called by God.
A Conservative Version
Brothers, each man, in what he was called, should remain in this before God.
American Standard Version
Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.
Amplified
Brothers, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was [when he was] called.
An Understandable Version
Brothers, each person should remain [in fellowship] with God in the [same] state he was in when he was called [by God to be a Christian].
Anderson New Testament
Brethren, let every one, in whatever condition he is called, abide in this with God.
Common New Testament
Brethren, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was called.
Daniel Mace New Testament
brethren, let every man conscientiously continue in the state he was in when he was converted.
Darby Translation
Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.
Godbey New Testament
Let each one remain with the Lord, in the same calling in which he was called, brethren.
Goodspeed New Testament
Brothers, everyone must remain in fellowship with God in the station in which he was called.
John Wesley New Testament
Brethren, let every one wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Julia Smith Translation
Each, in what he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.
King James 2000
Brethren, let every man, however he is called, therein abide with God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Each one in [the situation] in which he was called, brothers--in this he should remain with God.
Modern King James verseion
Each in whatever way he was called, brothers, in this remain with God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Brethren, let every man wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Moffatt New Testament
Brothers, everyone must remain with God in the condition of life where he was called.
Montgomery New Testament
Where each man stood when he was called, there, brothers, let him stay, close to God.
NET Bible
In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.
New Heart English Bible
Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
Noyes New Testament
In that state, brethren, in which he was called, let every one remain with God.
Sawyer New Testament
Let each one continue, brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God.
The Emphasized Bible
Each one, wherein he was called, brethren, in the same, let him abide with God.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let every one, brethren, in the vocation wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Brothers, let every one remain in the condition in which he was when he was called, in close communion with God.
Webster
Brethren, let every man in the state in which he is called, continue in it with God.
Weymouth New Testament
Where each one stood when he was called, there, brethren, let him still stand--close to God.
Williams New Testament
Brothers, each one must continue close to God in the very station in which he was called.
World English Bible
Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
Worrell New Testament
Brethren, let each one abide with God in the same condition in which he was called.
Worsley New Testament
Brethren, in whatever condition every one was when called, let him abide therein with God.
Youngs Literal Translation
each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 7:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Concerning Christian Marriage
23 It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men. 24 My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him. 25 Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:20
Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.
Genesis 5:22-24
And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
1 Samuel 14:45
And the people said to Saul, Is death to come to Jonathan, the worker of this great salvation for Israel? Let it not be so: by the living Lord, not one hair of his head is to be touched, for he has been working with God today. So the people kept Jonathan from death.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Colossians 3:23-24
Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;