1 Corinthians 10:23

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Live to Glorify God“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it would give grace to those who hear.
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:19-20 : 19 So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.
  • 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 Church Order What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all these things be done for the strengthening of the church.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation. 4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. 5 I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
    2 verses
    88%

    12Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.

    13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 10:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

    24Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

    25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

    26for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
    72%

    22Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

  • 1 Cor 8:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

    9But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

    10For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?

  • 1 Cor 10:31-33
    3 verses
    71%

    31So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

    32Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

    33just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

  • Rom 14:19-21
    3 verses
    70%

    19So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

    22To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

    23I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

  • 1 Cor 14:40
    69%

    40And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.

  • 1 Cor 7:6
    69%

    6I say this as a concession, not as a command.

  • Phil 4:13
    69%

    13I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    69%

    13For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    68%

    10Because of this I am writing these things while absent, so that when I arrive I may not have to deal harshly with you by using my authority– the Lord gave it to me for building up, not for tearing down!

  • 1 Cor 16:14
    68%

    14Everything you do should be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    68%

    1Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    68%

    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

  • 1 Cor 9:27
    68%

    27Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

  • Eph 5:10
    68%

    10trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
    68%

    19Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

    4For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

  • Rom 7:16
    67%

    16But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
    67%

    8Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    67%

    8For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.

  • Gal 5:23
    67%

    23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
    67%

    21So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,

  • 1 Cor 10:15
    67%

    15I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.

  • Rom 7:23
    67%

    23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
    67%

    8For“physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

  • 1 Tim 1:8
    67%

    8But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

  • Rom 14:13
    67%

    13Exhortation for the Strong not to Destroy the Weak Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
    67%

    3If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

  • Phlm 1:8
    67%

    8Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

  • Rom 14:2
    66%

    2One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

  • Rom 14:16
    66%

    16Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
    66%

    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

  • Rom 7:14
    66%

    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
    66%

    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

  • Rom 7:7
    66%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”