1 Corinthians 10:23 — Meaning and Application

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“All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. {expedient: or, profitable}”

1 Corinthians 10:23

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Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. {expedient: or, profitable}

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's {wealth}.

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, {that} eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

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1 Corinthians 10:1

"Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;"

1 Corinthians 10:2

"And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"

1 Corinthians 10:3

"And did all eat the same spiritual meat;"

1 Corinthians 10:4

"And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. {followed...: or, went with them}"

1 Corinthians 10:5

"But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness."

1 Corinthians 10:6

"Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. {our...: Gr. our figures}"

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