1 Corinthians 6:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² All 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Everything is permissible (allowable and lawful) for me; but not all things are helpful (good for me to do, expedient and profitable when considered with other things). Everything is lawful for me, but I will not become the slave of anything or be brought under its power.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² All 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.

Common English Bible

¹² I have the freedom to do anything, but not everything is helpful. I have the freedom to do anything, but I won’t be controlled by anything.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone.

1 Corinthians 6:12 Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

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;

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

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.

John 5:10

So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

Leviticus 15:18

The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.