23All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
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All 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.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. …
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-33)In this passage the apostle shows in what instances, notwithstanding, Christians might lawfully eat what had been sacrificed to idols. They must not eat it out of religious respect to the idol, nor go into his temple, and hold a feast there, upon what they knew was an idol-sacrifice; nor perhaps out of the temple, if they knew it was a feast held upon a sacrifice, but there were cases wherein they…
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