1 Corinthians 10:23

New American Bible - revised edition

“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds up.

Cross References

Romans 14:15

If your brother is being hurt by what you eat, your conduct is no longer in accord with love. Do not because of your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 14:12

So with yourselves: since you strive eagerly for spirits, seek to have an abundance of them for building up the church. Need for Interpretation.

1 Corinthians 14:17

For you may be giving thanks very well, but the other is not built up.

1 Corinthians 14:26

So what is to be done, brothers? When you assemble, one has a psalm, another an instruction, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Everything should be done for building up.

1 Corinthians 6:12

“Everything is lawful for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful for me,” but I will not let myself be dominated by anything.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now in regard to meat sacrificed to idols: we realize that “all of us have knowledge”; knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But make sure that this liberty of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

2 Corinthians 12:19

Have you been thinking all along that we are defending ourselves before you? In the sight of God we are speaking in Christ, and all for building you up, beloved.

Ephesians 4:29

No foul language should come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for needed edification, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do. Church Order.

1 Timothy 1:4

or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith.