Bible verse
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
1 Corinthians 10:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 10.
19 Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
22 Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
23 “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
24 No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.
KJV
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
ASV
All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
ERV
All things are lawful; but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful; but all things edify not.
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