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.
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Gill's Exposition
All things are lawful unto me,.... That is, which are of an indifferent nature; otherwise everything is not lawful to be done:
but all things are not expedient; when the doing of them destroys the…
Barnes' Notes
All things are lawful unto me - The apostle here evidently makes a transition to another subject from that which he had been discussing - a consideration of the propriety of using certain things which…
Adam Clarke
All things are lawful unto me - It is likely that some of the Corinthians had pleaded that the offense of the man who had his father's wife, as well as the eating the things offered to idols, was not…
The twelfth verse and former part of the thirteenth seem to relate to that early dispute among Christians about the distinction of meats, and yet to be prefatory to the caution that follows against…
The guilt of the Fornicator
12. All things are lawful unto me In this and the next two verses the main argument of the rest of the Epistle is sketched out, though not in the order afterwards followed…
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