1 Corinthians 6:12
All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.
1 Corinthians 8:4With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:23All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.
Hebrews 12:15taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled;
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 6:10-12
Solemn Warnings. ( a. d. 57.) 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Here he takes occasion to… Read the whole commentary →