17. 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.
18. If a circumcised man has accepted God's call, he should not try to remove the marks of circumcision; if an uncircumcised man has accepted God's call, he should not get circumcised.
19. For whether or not a man is circumcised means nothing; what matters is to obey God's commandments.
20. Each of you should remain as you were when you accepted God's call.
21. Were you a slave when God called you? Well, never mind; but if you have a chance to become free, use it.
22. For a slave who has been called by the Lord is free for the Lord; in the same way a free person who has been called by Christ is his slave.
23. God bought you for a price; so do not become slaves of human beings.