1 Corinthians 6:12 - New Revised Standard Version

¹² “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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 in water, and be unclean until the evening.

John 5:10

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists,” and that “there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others share this rightful claim on 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 punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

This was not because we do not have that right, but in order to give you an example to imitate.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;