1 Corinthians 6:12
1 Corinthians chapter 6 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000All 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 any.
KJV
King James Version · 1611All 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901All 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 any.
Context
v.11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
v.12This passage
v.13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lestthere beany man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
- 1 Corinthians 8:7
Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
- 1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
- Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
- Jude 1:12
These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
- Romans 14:14
I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.