1 Corinthians 10:23

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All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

And see ye lest this your power be a stumble to the weak.

And if by food thy brother is grieved, thou no more walkest by love. Not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.

And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.

And he prophesying speaks to men for building the house, and entreaty, and encouragement.

So therefore, let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for the building up for one another.

And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.

Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:

Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed: