1 Corinthians 6:12 - Revised Standard Version

“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.

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King 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.

1 Corinthians 6:12 Tagairtí Cros

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;