1 Corinthians 6:12

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Summary

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Things are lawful

1 Corinthians 10:23

Romans 14:14

Are not

2 Thessalonians 3:9

But i

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Things are lawful

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

Are not

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

But i

But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,