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
    2 verses
    88%

    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.

    13 Meates 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%

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

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

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

  • 1 Cor 10:22
    72%

    22 Doe we prouoke the Lord to anger? are we stronger then he?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
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    8 But 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.

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

    10 For 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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    71%

    31 Whether therefore ye eate, or drinke, or whatsoeuer ye doe, doe all to the glory of God.

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

    33 Euen 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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    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.

    21 It 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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    29 And 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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    21 To 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:

    22 To 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 14:40
    69%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:6
    69%

    6 But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.

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

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    69%

    13 Wherefore 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%

    10 Therefore 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%

    14 Let all your things be done in loue.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    68%

    1 And 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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    15 But 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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    27 But 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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    10 Approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
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    19 What 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
    2 verses
    68%

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

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

  • Rom 7:16
    67%

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

  • 1 Cor 9:8
    67%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    67%

    8 For 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%

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

  • 1 Cor 3:21
    67%

    21 Therefore let no man reioyce in men: for all things are yours.

  • 1 Cor 10:15
    67%

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

  • Rom 7:23
    67%

    23 But 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%

    8 For 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
    67%

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

  • Rom 14:13
    67%

    13 Let 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
    67%

    3 And 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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    8 Wherefore, though I bee very bolde in Christ to commaunde thee that which is conuenient,

  • Rom 14:2
    66%

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

  • Rom 14:16
    66%

    16 Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
    66%

    10 According 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%

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

  • 1 Cor 9:19
    66%

    19 For 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%

    7 What 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.

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