1 Corinthians 6:12
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be under the power of any:
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Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
1 Corinthians 8:4As to the eating therefore of things sacrificed 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 power over you, may not we rather? though we have not used this power; but we bear all things, least we should cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:23If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.
Hebrews 12:15looking to it, least there be any one falling short of the grace of God, least any root of bitterness springing up should be troublesome, and by it 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 →