1 Corinthians 6:12 ““Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial.…”

1 Corinthians 6:12

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing.

Darby Translation

All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Young's Literal Translation

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I — I will not be under authority by any;

Bible in Basic English

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

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Cross references

“things are lawful”

1 Corinthians 10:23 Romans 14:14

1 Corinthians 10:23 · BSB

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.

Romans 14:14 · BSB

I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

“are not”

1 Corinthians 8:7–13 2 Thessalonians 3:9 1 Corinthians 8:4 1 Corinthians 9:12 1 Corinthians 10:24–33 Romans 14:15–23

1 Corinthians 8:7–13 · BSB

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

2 Thessalonians 3:9 · BSB

Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

1 Corinthians 8:4 · BSB

So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 9:12 · BSB

If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:24–33 · BSB

No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

Romans 14:15–23 · BSB

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

“but I”

1 Corinthians 9:27 Romans 7:14 Jude 1:12 Hebrews 12:15 Hebrews 12:16

1 Corinthians 9:27 · BSB

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Romans 7:14 · BSB

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

Jude 1:12 · BSB

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being u…

Hebrews 12:15 · BSB

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

Hebrews 12:16 · BSB

See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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