1 Corinthians 10:23
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
Note Or “All things are lawful,” twice in this verse
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- things are lawful
- 1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corinthians 8:9; Romans 14:15, 20
- edify
- 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 14:3–5, 12, 17, 26; Romans 14:19; Romans 15:1, 2; 2 Corinthians 12:19; Ephesians 4:29; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Timothy 1:4