If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 10:23 - Revised Standard Version “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All things are legitimate [permissible–and we are free to do anything we please], but not all things are helpful (expedient, profitable, and wholesome). All things are legitimate, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life]. American Standard Version (1901) All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. Common English Bible Everything is permitted, but everything isn’t beneficial. Everything is permitted, but everything doesn’t build others up. Catholic Public Domain Version All is lawful to me, but not all is edifying. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify. |
If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.
So with yourselves; since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
“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.
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” “Knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith;