12All 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.
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All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. …
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; …
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. …
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-20)The 1 Cor. 6:12 , 13 seem to relate to that early dispute among Christians about the distinction of meats, and yet to be prefatory to the caution that follows against fornication. The connection seems plain enough if we attend to the famous determination of the apostles, Acts 15:19-29, where the prohibition of certain foods was joined with that of fornication. Now some among the Corinthians seem t…
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