1 Corinthians 6:12

Tree of Life Version

“Everything is permitted for me”—but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted for me”—but I will not be controlled by anything.

Cross References

Leviticus 15:18

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

John 5:10

so Judean leaders were saying to the man who was healed, “It’s Shabbat! It’s not permitted for you to carry your mat.”

Romans 7:14

For we know that the Torah is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold to sin.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore concerning the eating of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others have a share in this claim over you, shouldn’t we even more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we put up with all things so that we cause no hindrance to the Good News of Messiah.

1 Corinthians 9:27

Rather, I punish my body and bring it into submission, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

It wasn’t that we had no right, but rather to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

Jude 1:12

These people are hidden rocky reefs at your love feasts—shamelessly feasting with you, tending only to themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, doubly dead, uprooted;