1 Corinthians 10:23

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

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  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not 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 them that are weak.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 But if thy bther be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Desty not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:19-20 : 19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. 20 For meat desty not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 We then that are stng ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to 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 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 88%

    12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

    13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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    24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

    25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

    26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

  • 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

    9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

    10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

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    31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

    32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

    33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

    20 For meat desty not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

    21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy bther stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

  • 29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

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    21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

    22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

    23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

  • 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

  • 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

  • 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

  • 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 14 Let all your things be done with charity.

  • 1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

  • 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

  • 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

  • 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

  • 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    68%

    3 But 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.

    4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

  • 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

  • 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

  • 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

  • 23 Meekness, temperance: ainst such there is no law.

  • 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

  • 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

  • 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

  • 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

  • 8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

  • 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his bther's way.

  • 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

  • 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • 2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

  • 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

  • 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

  • 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

  • 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.