If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
1 Corinthians 6:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Everything is permissible for me,’ but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible for me,’ but I will not be mastered by anything. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Everything is permissible (allowable and lawful) for me; but not all things are helpful (good for me to do, expedient and profitable when considered with other things). Everything is lawful for me, but I will not become the slave of anything or be brought under its power. American Standard Version (1901) All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any. Common English Bible I have the freedom to do anything, but not everything is helpful. I have the freedom to do anything, but I won’t be controlled by anything. Catholic Public Domain Version All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. |
If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, ‘This is the Sabbath. The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.’
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave under sin.
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’, and that ‘there is no God but one’.
If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right; instead, we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.
These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn #– #fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.