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 10:23–33All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
• 1 Cor 9:27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• Heb 12:15–16Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
• Rom 14:14–23I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
• 1 Cor 8:7–13Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
• 2 Th 3:9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
• 1 Cor 9:12If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
• Jude 1:12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• 1 Cor 8:4As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
• Rom 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

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