²⁰ Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

¹⁰ The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"

¹¹ He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."

¹² Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"

¹³ He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you."

¹⁴ Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."

¹⁷ Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.

²¹ Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

²² For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

²³ You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

²⁴ Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

¹¹ and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;

¹² Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.