1 Corinthians 10:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things edify.

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 6:12 : 12 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.
1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
Eph 4:29 : 29 Let {G3956} no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.
1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
Rom 14:15 : 15 For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, {G3765} thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.
Rom 14:19-20 : 19 So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another. 20 Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Rom 15:1-2 : 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.
1 Cor 14:12 : 12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.
1 Cor 14:17 : 17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
2 Cor 12:19 : 19 {G3825} Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.
1 Tim 1:4 : 4 neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now].
1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation. 4 He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except {G3361} he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

Similar Verses (AI)

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1 Cor 6:12-13
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12All 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.
13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
1 Cor 10:24-26
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24Let no man seek his own, but [each] his neighbor's [good].
25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,
26for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
1 Cor 10:22
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22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
1 Cor 8:8-10
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8But food will not commend us to God: {G3777} neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
10For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat {G1519} things sacrificed to idols?
1 Cor 10:31-33
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31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
32Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
Rom 14:19-21
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19So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
20Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby {G3739} thy brother stumbleth.
1 Cor 10:29
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29conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for {G2443} why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
1 Cor 9:21-23
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21to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.
22To the weak I became {G5613} weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
1 Cor 14:40
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40But let all things be done decently and in order.
1 Cor 7:6
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6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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13I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
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13Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat {G3756} no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
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10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
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14Let all that ye do be done in love.
1 Cor 8:1
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1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
1 Cor 9:15
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15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.
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27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, {G4458} after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Eph 5:10
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10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
1 Cor 10:19
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19What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or {G3754} that an idol is anything?
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3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
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16But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
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8Do I speak these things {G3361} after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
2 Cor 10:8
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8For though {G5037} I should glory {G2532} somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave {G2254} for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
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23meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
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21Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
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15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
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23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
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8for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
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8But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,
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13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.
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3And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
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8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
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2{G3303} One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.
Rom 14:16
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16Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
1 Cor 3:10
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10According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
Rom 7:14
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14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
1 Cor 9:19
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19For though I was free from all [men,] I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Rom 7:7
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7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet: