1 Corinthians 10:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:19-20 : 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another; 20 for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; 2 for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;
  • 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort; 4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; 5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

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  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
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    12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

    13the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

  • 1 Cor 10:24-26
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    24let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

    25Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

    26for the Lord's `is' the earth, and its fulness;

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
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    8But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

    9but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

    10for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

  • 1 Cor 10:31-33
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    31Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

    32become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

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

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

    20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.

    21Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why `is it' that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;

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

    23And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

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

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

  • Phil 4:13
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    13For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14let all your things be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

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

  • 1 Cor 10:19
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    19what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

    4for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

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    16And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that `it is' good,

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

  • Gal 5:23
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    23meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

  • 1 Cor 3:21
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    21So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:

  • Rom 7:23
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    23and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that `is' in my members.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
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    8for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

  • 1 Tim 1:8
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    8and we have known that the law `is' good, if any one may use it lawfully;

  • Rom 14:13
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    13no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
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    3and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

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    8Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

  • Rom 14:2
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    2one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

  • 1 Cor 3:10
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    10According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',

  • Rom 7:14
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    14for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: