The fact that Paul both condemns sexual immorality—including prostitution—and tells slaves to obey their masters should be enough to suggest that maybe—just maybe—he was giving a nod to slavery because that was the world within which early Christians lived, and not because it was a moral good. The fact that Paul both told slaves to obey their masters and Christians not to prostitute suggests that he was perhaps trying more to thread a very fine needle than to make a universal proclamation on slavery.

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