²⁰ Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.^(A)

²¹ Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so. ²² For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person;^(B) similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave.^(C)