All things are lawful to me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.
But if your brother is grieved because of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not by your food destroy that one for whom Christ died.
So also you, since you are zealots of spiritual gifts, seek to build up the assembly that you may abound.
For you truly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
Then what is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, he has a teaching, he has a language, he has a revelation, he has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up.
All things are lawful to me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be subjected by any.
But concerning the sacrifices to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
But watch how this authority of yours may not become a cause of stumbling to the ones being weak.
Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but in all things for your building up, beloved.
Let not any rotten word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect to the need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.
Therefore, encourage one another, and build up one another, as you indeed do.
nor to pay attention to myths and to endless genealogies, which provide questionings, rather than a stewardship of God, the one being in faith,