1 Corinthians 6:12

Even if all things are lawful, not all are helpful, and Paul refuses to be mastered by anything. It matters because Christian freedom is governed by what builds up and never becomes slavery to sin.

Cross-references · 10

• 1 Cor 10:23–33“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
• 1 Cor 9:27No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
• Heb 12:15–16See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
• Rom 14:14–23I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
• 1 Cor 8:7–13But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
• 2 Th 3:9Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
• 1 Cor 9:12If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
• Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
• 1 Cor 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
• Rom 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

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