1 Corinthians 6:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.

Cross References

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

John 5:10

So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet.”

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;