1 Corinthians 10:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.

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  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also do.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:19-20 : 19 Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edification of the church.
  • 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 How is it then, brethren? When you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Nor give attention to fables and endless genealogies, which cause questions rather than godly edification which is in faith, so do.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for edification, exhortation, and comfort. 4 He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 5 I wish that you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied; for greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive edification.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
    2 verses
    88%

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

    13Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; 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.

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

    24Let no one seek his own good, but each one the good of others.

    25Whatever is sold in the market, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:

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

  • 1 Cor 10:22
    72%

    22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
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    71%

    8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

    9But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

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

    32Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

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

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    70%

    19Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

    21It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience?

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21To those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

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

    23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

  • 1 Cor 14:40
    69%

    40Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 7:6
    69%

    6But I speak this by permission, and 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 makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    68%

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

  • 1 Cor 16:14
    68%

    14Let all that you do be done with love.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    68%

    1Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    68%

    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

  • Eph 5:10
    68%

    10Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
    68%

    19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

    4For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

  • Rom 7:16
    67%

    16If then I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
    67%

    8Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    67%

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

  • Gal 5:23
    67%

    23gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
    67%

    21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours;

  • 1 Cor 10:15
    67%

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

  • Rom 7:23
    67%

    23But 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.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
    67%

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

  • 1 Tim 1:8
    67%

    8But we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully;

  • Rom 14:13
    67%

    13Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
    67%

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

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

  • Rom 14:2
    66%

    2For one believes he may eat all things, but another, who is weak, eats only herbs.

  • Rom 14:16
    66%

    16Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
    66%

    10According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

  • Rom 7:14
    66%

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

  • 1 Cor 9:19
    66%

    19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more.

  • Rom 7:7
    66%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'