1 Corinthians 10:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawfull for me, but all things edifie not.

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  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt comunicatio proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good, to ye vse of edifying, that it may minister grace vnto the hearers.
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 But if thy brother be grieued for the meate, nowe walkest thou not charitably: destroy not him with thy meate, for whome Christ dyed.
  • Rom 14:19-20 : 19 Let vs then followe those things which concerne peace, and wherewith one may edifie another. 20 Destroy not the worke of God for meates sake: all things in deede are pure: but it is euill for the man which eateth with offence.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 We which are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, & not to please our selues. 2 Therefore let euery man please his neighbour in that that is good to edification.
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 Euen so, forasmuch as ye couet spirituall giftes, seeke that ye may excell vnto the edifying of the Church.
  • 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 For thou verely giuest thankes well, but the other is not edified.
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is to be done then, brethren? when ye come together, according as euery one of you hath a Psalme, or hath doctrine, or hath a tongue, or hath reuelation, or hath interpretation, let all things be done vnto edifying.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endles, which breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by fayth.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But he that prophecieth, speaketh vnto me to edifying, and to exhortation, and to comfort. 4 He that speaketh strange language, edifieth himselfe: but hee that prophecieth, edifieth the Church. 5 I would that ye all spake strange languages, but rather that ye prophecied: for greater is hee that prophecieth, then hee that speaketh diuers tongues, except hee expounde it, that the Church may receiue edification.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
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    12All 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.

    13Meates are ordeined for the bellie, & the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.

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

    24Let no man seeke his owne, but euery man anothers wealth.

    25Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, eate ye, and aske no question for conscience sake.

    26For the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22Doe we prouoke the Lord to anger? are we stronger then he?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
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    8But meate maketh not vs acceptable to God, for neither if we eate, haue we the more: neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse.

    9But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.

    10For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at table in the idoles temple, shal not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those things which are sacrificed to idoles?

  • 1 Cor 10:31-33
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    31Whether therefore ye eate, or drinke, or whatsoeuer ye doe, doe all to the glory of God.

    32Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of God:

    33Euen as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19Let vs then followe those things which concerne peace, and wherewith one may edifie another.

    20Destroy not the worke of God for meates sake: all things in deede are pure: but it is euill for the man which eateth with offence.

    21It is good neither to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weake.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29And the conscience, I say, not thine, but of that other: for why should my libertie be condemned of another mans conscience?

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:

    22To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.

    23And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

  • 1 Cor 14:40
    69%

    40Let all things be done honestly, and by order.

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.

  • Phil 4:13
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    13I am able to do al things through the helpe of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13Wherefore if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    68%

    10Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
    68%

    14Let all your things be done in loue.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    68%

    1And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I beate downe my body, & bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.

  • Eph 5:10
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    10Approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
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    19What say I then? that the idole is any thing? or that that which is sacrificed to idoles, is any thing?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3As touching me, I passe very litle to be iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: no, I iudge not mine owne selfe.

    4For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.

  • Rom 7:16
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    16If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
    67%

    8Say I these thinges according to man? saith not the Lawe the same also?

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.

  • Gal 5:23
    67%

    23Meekenesse, temperancie: against such there is no lawe.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
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    21Therefore let no man reioyce in men: for all things are yours.

  • 1 Cor 10:15
    67%

    15I speake as vnto them which haue vnderstanding: iugde ye what I say.

  • Rom 7:23
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    23But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
    67%

    8For bodily exercise profiteth litle: but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, which hath the promes of the life present, and of that that is to come.

  • 1 Tim 1:8
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    8And we knowe, that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully,

  • Rom 14:13
    67%

    13Let vs not therefore iudge one another any more: but vse your iudgement rather in this, that no man put an occasion to fall, or a stumbling blocke before his brother.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
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    3And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Wherefore, though I bee very bolde in Christ to commaunde thee that which is conuenient,

  • Rom 14:2
    66%

    2One beleeueth that he may eate of all things: and another, which is weake, eateth herbes.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
    66%

    10According to the grace of God giuen to mee, as a skilfull master builder, I haue laide the foundation, & another buildeth thereon: but let euery man take heede how he buildeth vpon it.

  • Rom 7:14
    66%

    14For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
    66%

    19For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.

  • Rom 7:7
    66%

    7What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.