1 Corinthians 6:12
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.
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Romans 7:14For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.
1 Corinthians 8:4Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed vnto idoles, we knowe that an idole is nothing in the worlde, and that there is none other God but one.
1 Corinthians 9:12If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawfull for me, but all things edifie not.
Hebrews 12:15Take heede, that no man fall away from the grace of God: let no roote of bitternes spring vp and trouble you, lest thereby 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 →