1 Corinthians 10:23

Weymouth NT

Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.

Cross References

Romans 14:15

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 14:12

Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.

1 Corinthians 14:17

Rightly enough you are giving thanks, and yet your neighbor is not benefited.

1 Corinthians 14:26

What then, brethren? Whenever you assemble, there is not one of you who is not ready either with a song of praise, a sermon, a revelation, a `tongue,' or an interpretation. Let everything be done with a view to the building up of faith and character.

1 Corinthians 6:12

Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. This is a subject which we already understand–because we all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make people conceited; it is love that builds us up.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.

2 Corinthians 12:19

You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your words be good for benefiting others according to the need of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing to the hearers.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.

1 Timothy 1:4

and the attention they bestow on mere fables and endless pedigrees, such as lead to controversy rather than to a true stewardship for God, which only exists where there is faith. And I make the same request now.