What does 1 Corinthians 10:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not."
1 CORINTHIANS 10:23 pa,nta e;xestin … pa,nta e;xestin In both instances the Textus Receptus reads moi between pa,nta and e;xestin, following ac C3 (first time) H K L Y most minuscules syrp, h goth (s...
Verse 23. _ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME_] I may lawfully eat all kinds of food, _but all are not expedient_; ου παντα συμφερει. It would not be _becoming_ in me to eat of all, because I should by this...
ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME - See the note at 1 Corinthians 6:12. This is a repetition of what he had said before; and it is here applied to the subject of eating the meat that had been offered to id...
7. WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Warnings from Israel's past history. (1 Corinthians 10:4)._ 2. Exhortations. (1 Corinthians 10:15). The same subject is continued with this chapter. Th...
1 Corinthians 10:23 to 1 Corinthians 11:1. From the meal in the idol's temple Paul passes to the question as it arose in daily life. He repeats that while all might be lawful all was not expedient (1...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
ALL THINGS, &C. = not all things are expedient, or profitable. ALL THINGS, &C. = not all things edify. Greek. _oikodomeo._ See Acts 9:31....
Ch. 1 Corinthians 11:1. Practical directions on the subject of Meats offered in Sacrifice 23. _All things are lawful for me_ A repetition of the words in ch. 1 Corinthians 6:12, with a more emphatic...
23. [μοι] is inserted after ΠΆΝΤΑ in each case by rec. with Vulg. Peshito. It is no doubt imported from ch. 1 Corinthians 6:12. μοι is omitted in each case by אABCDE, Vetus Lat. and some early copies...
_TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND WITHOUT OFFENCE 1 CORINTHIANS 10:23-33:_ Christians must be fully convinced that there is such a thing as right and wrong. The Christian is very much out of step with the thin...
ΈΞΕΣΤΙΝ (G1832) _praes. ind. act._, безличное _знач._ законно, позволено, ΣΥΜΦΈΡΕΙ _praes. ind. act._ (G4851) ΣΥΜΦΈΡΩ сводить вместе, помогать, доставлять преимущество, служить во благо, быть выгодны...
_1 CORINTHIANS 10:23_.— The Apostle here proceeds with another argument against things offered to idols, wherein he shews the danger which might be in it, from the scandal it might give, supposing the...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Insensitiveness (1 Corinthians 10:23-30) 23 All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things build up. 24Let no one seek h...
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME ... Recurring to the Corinthian plea (), he rep...
25 Contestants in the Grecian games had to take an oath that they had been ten months in training, and that they would violate none of the regulations. They lived on a prescribed diet and exercised se...
10:23 lawful, (e-4) lawful, (e-13) 'Are lawful' is the verb, of which _ exousia_ , the word translated 'right' or 'liberty' in ch. 8.9, and 'power' in Matthew 10:1 , is the noun. The word translated '...
_(B) FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS_ In these Chapter s St. Paul answers another question of the Corinthians—as to the lawfulness of eating food which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. This was a very ur...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 *WARNINGS FROM ISRAEL’S HISTORY 10:1-13 *SPIRITUAL FOOD AND DRINK 10:1-5 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I do not want you to forget that al...
ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME. — The Apostle now proceeds to conclude, with some practical direction and advice, the question of the eating of meat offered to idols, from which immediate subject the st...
CHAPTER 15 FALLACIOUS PRESUMPTIONS IN discussing the question regarding "things offered unto idols," Paul is led to treat at large of Christian liberty, a subject to which he was always drawn. And pa...
§ 33. THE COMMUNION OF THE LORD, AND OF DEMONS. A further warning the Ap. will give against dalliance with idolatry, based on Christian practice as the former was based on Israelite history. He points...
“DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD” 1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 11:1 There seems to be a, clear distinction in the Apostle's directions between feasting in an idol temple on the one hand, and the acc...
A great warning based on an illustration in Israel's history is contained in these words, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." To this warning the apostle adds that th...
Seeking The Good of Brethren Paul knew all things not morally wrong were lawful, but some of those would not build up or strengthen the church. When Christians have the right to do something, the que...
(6) (t) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. (6) Coming to another type of things offered to idols, he repeats that...
_All things are lawful. This is the same sentiment he has expressed in chap. vi. ver. 12. and in chap. viii. ver. 8. 9. wherein he teaches us, that on some occasions it is necessary to abstain even fr...
VV. 23 forms the transition to this third passage, which is, as it were, the recapitulation of the whole matter treated in these three Chapter s. VV. 23. “All things are lawful, but all things are no...
(23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. (24) Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. (25) Whatsoev...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
23._All things are lawful for me _Again he returns to the right of Christian liberty, by which the Corinthians defended themselves, and sets aside their objection by giving the same explanation as bef...
The apostle then gives the Corinthians the ways of God with Israel in the wilderness, as instruction with regard to His ways with us, declaring that the things which happened to them were types or fig...
ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME,.... All sorts of food are lawful to be eaten, every creature of God is good, there is nothing common or unclean in itself, polluted or polluting; and so things offered to...
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Ver. 23. _All things are not expedient_] _An liceat, an deceat, an expediat, _...
_All things_, &c. He here comes to speak of another case, namely, the buying and eating privately, meats which had been offered to idols: _are lawful for me_ All kinds of meats according to the gospel...
ALL THINGS; which are good to eat, may at proper times be eaten and even meat which had been offered to idols was not changed, and would not injure Paul: but it would not on that account be right for...
The Christian principles involved:...
Just as, in the end of chapter 9, Paul shows himself willing to submit to a serious test as to the reality of his Christianity, so in the first of chapter 10 it is plain that all who claim the place o...
ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL; BUT NOT ALL THINGS ARE EXPEDIENT. ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL; BUT NOT ALL THINGS EDIFY. -The same principle is laid down in 1 Corinthians 6:12. 'EXPEDIENT' -i.e. helpful, beneficia...
23-33 There were cases wherein Christians might eat what had been offered to idols, without sin. Such as when the flesh was sold in the market as common food, for the priest to whom it had been given....
ALL THINGS here must necessarily signify many things, or, at least, (as some think), all those things I have spoken of, to eat meat offered to idols, &c. But if we interpret it in the latter sense, it...
All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. [See comment on 1 Corinthians 6:12]...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II Let the mention we make for our present purpose suffice, as it is not unsuitable to the flowers of the Word; and we have often done this, drawing to the u...
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'All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.' Again he takes up their own challenge that 'all things are lawful to us' (compare 1 Corinth...
It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony, and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
See on 1 Corinthians 6:12 forLAWFUL (εξεστιν) andEXPEDIENT (συμφερε).EDIFY NOT (ουκ οικοδομε). Build up. Explanation ofEXPEDIENT (συμφερε)....
1 Corinthians 10:15. _I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion...
CONTENTS: Israel in the wilderness, a warning example. Fellowship of the Lord's table demands separation. Law of love in relation to eating and drinking. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Moses. CONCLU...
1 Corinthians 10:1. _I would not have you ignorant_ of the grand point, the foundation of the Hebrew religion; _that our fathers,_ for such was the usual language of the jews and proselytes respecting...
WE ARE ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING. This was a _slogan_ of the Corinthian church (see note on 1 Corinthians 6:12), YES, BUT. Christian liberty must be limited to make it both kind and helpful. Even though...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER From speaking of the contest, in which those who deny themselves and strive lawfully are rewarded, and in which the slothful and self-indulgent are condemned and p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 10:1.—Notice “_for_,” true reading, connecting closely with ix. _ult. Q.d_. “I am not secure from becoming a ‘castaway’; you are not yet sure of the prize; _for_ it is e...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 _Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations._ 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 MOREOVER; rather, _for. _He has just shown them, by his own examp...
Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and passed through the sea (1 Corinthians 10:1); Now he is talking about their forefathers w...
1 Corinthians 14:12; 1 Corinthians 14:17; 1 Corinthians 14:26; 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 8:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:11;...
Supposing this were lawful in itself, yet it is not expedient, it is not edifying to my neighbour....
Our apostle having in the former part of this chapter resolved the case concerning public eating things offered unto idols in the idol-temples, and by several arguments proved it to be absolutely unla...