Text: 1 Corinthians 10:23-33 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 10:23-33 New English Translation (NET Bible)
23 "Everything is lawful," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is lawful," but not everything builds others up.
24 Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.
25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience.
26 for the earth and its abundance are the Lord's.
27 If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.
28 But if someone says to you, "This is from a sacrifice," do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience.
29 I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?
We can eat meat that's been sacrificed to devils if it doesn't become a stumbling block.
30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?
31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
32 Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God.
33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 8:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Proverbs 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Matthew 17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Romans 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
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