1 Corinthians 10:23

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Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

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  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Therefore, encourage one another and build each other up, just as you are already doing.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:19-20 : 19 So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Each of us should please our neighbor for their good, to build them up.
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 So with yourselves, since you are eager for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.
  • 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not built up.
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, do you think that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ, and all these things, beloved, are for your edification.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship of God that is by faith.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and comfort. 4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up themselves, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. 5 I wish that all of you spoke in tongues, but I would rather you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless they interpret so that the church may be built up.

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 beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

    13Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 10:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

    24No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.

    25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience.

    26For the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
    72%

    22Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
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    8Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

    9But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?

  • 1 Cor 10:31-33
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    31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

    32Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God.

    33Just as I also try to please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29I do not mean your own conscience, but that of the other person's. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21To those without the law, I became like one without the law (not being without God’s law but under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

    22To the weak, I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all possible means I might save some.

    23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

  • 1 Cor 14:40
    69%

    40But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.

  • 1 Cor 7:6
    69%

    6I say this as a concession, not as a command.

  • Phil 4:13
    69%

    13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    69%

    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    68%

    10This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not tearing you down.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
    68%

    14Let all that you do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    68%

    1Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    68%

    15But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
    68%

    27Rather, I discipline my body and bring it under control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

  • Eph 5:10
    68%

    10Prove what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
    68%

    19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3But to me, it is of little importance to be judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

    4I am not aware of anything against myself, but that does not make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Lord.

  • Rom 7:16
    67%

    16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
    67%

    8Do I say these things merely from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law also say the same?

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    67%

    8Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

  • Gal 5:23
    67%

    23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
    67%

    21So then, let no one boast in human leaders, for all things are yours—

  • 1 Cor 10:15
    67%

    15I speak to wise people; judge for yourselves what I say.

  • Rom 7:23
    67%

    23but I see another law at work in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
    67%

    8For bodily training is of some value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

  • 1 Tim 1:8
    67%

    8Now we know that the law is good if one uses it properly.

  • Rom 14:13
    67%

    13Therefore, let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
    67%

    3If I give everything I have to the poor and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

  • Phlm 1:8
    67%

    8For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • Rom 14:2
    66%

    2One person believes they may eat anything, while someone who is weak eats only vegetables.

  • Rom 14:16
    66%

    16Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
    66%

    10According to the grace God has given me, like a wise master builder, I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each one should be careful how they build.

  • Rom 7:14
    66%

    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
    66%

    19For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to everyone, so that I might win more of them.

  • Rom 7:7
    66%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'