1 Corinthians 10:23

World English Bible (2000)

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:19-20 : 19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. 20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
  • 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation. 4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. 5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
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    12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

    13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 10:24-26
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    75%

    24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

    25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

    26 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

  • 1 Cor 10:22
    72%

    22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
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    8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

    9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

    10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

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

    32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

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

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

    20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

    21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21 to 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.

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

    23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 1 Cor 14:40
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    40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

  • Phil 4:13
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    13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14 Let all that you do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    68%

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

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    68%

    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • Eph 5:10
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    10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
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    19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

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

  • Rom 7:16
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    16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    67%

    8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

  • Gal 5:23
    67%

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

  • 1 Cor 3:21
    67%

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

  • 1 Cor 10:15
    67%

    15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

  • Rom 7:23
    67%

    23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
    67%

    8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

  • 1 Tim 1:8
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    8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,

  • Rom 14:13
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    13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
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    3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • Rom 14:2
    66%

    2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • 1 Cor 3:10
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    10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

  • Rom 7:14
    66%

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

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • Rom 7:7
    66%

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."