1 Corinthians 6:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (9) (g) 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 (h) power of any. (9) Secondly, he shows that the Corinthia...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Impurity is no True Expression of Christian Freedom, but Incompatible with the Believer's Union with Christ. The special case of incest and the warnings against impurity in the last section ( 1 Cor...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  unto . to. all things, &c . = not all things are profitable (Greek. sumphero. Compare John 11:50 ; John 16:7 ; Acts 20:20 ). for . to. brought under, &c . Greek. pass, of exousia...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. All things are lawful for me. Interpreters labor hard to make out the connection of these things, (345) as they appear to be somewhat foreign to the Apostle’s design. For my own part, w...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. All things are lawful unto me - It is likely that some...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  All things are lawful unto me— Are all things lawful for me?—However, all things are not expedient. Are all things lawful for me?—However, I will not be a slave to any. Heylin.

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. All things are lawful unto me. Paul's own word...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (c) 6:1-11. Christians and Litigation St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by rumours he had heard;...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  All things are lawful unto me. — This was probably a statement which the Apostle had himself made; at all events, the freedom which it expresses was very dear to him, and it may have been misused b...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 9 ON GOING TO LAW ST. PAUL here gives his judgment on the litigiousness of the Corinthians. The Greeks, in general, were fond of going to law. They were not only quarrelsome, but they see...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Keeping the Body Holy 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 It is interesting to compare 1 Corinthians 6:12 with 1 Corinthians 10:23 . There are four clauses in each verse, three of which are similar, but t...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (12) 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. (13) Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 t...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 12. All things are lawful ] viz. All indiffer...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  All things That are indifferent in their own nature, and neither commanded nor forbidden; are lawful unto me Or, as some paraphrase the clause, All things which are lawful for you are lawful for...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  In this chapter there is another matter raised in which the Corinthians had not been using proper judgment. No individual is singled out here, but the strong reproof of the apostle is for any who had...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Against Fornication. A. D.  57.       12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expe...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The words of this text are not so difficult in themselves, as it is to make out the connection they have with, and the dependence they have upon, what went before and what followeth after. Some, thin...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Paul Now Stresses that All Immorality Is To Be Avoided At All Costs (6:12-20). ‘All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brough...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES SECOND MAIN TOPIC.— 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 1 Corinthians 6:12 . Lawful .—Here, and in 1 Corinthians 10:23 . To be put in quotation marks, “All … lawful.” His own words, or some...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? In those days, the courts of law were utterly unjust. It was all a matter of who coul...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Corinthians 6:1 . Dare any of you go to law before the unjust? He whose cause is just appeals to equity, but he who does his neighbour wrong is vexatious. In England, our judges, after the cause...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And such were some of you, but ye are washed … sanctified … Justified. The great contrast Note-- I. The past state of the redeemed. “And such were some of you.” 1. They were void of moral...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 6:1-46 Litigation before heathen courts forbidden. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you? rather, Dare any one of you? It is in St. Paul's view an audacio...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:23 ; 1 Corinthians 10:24-33 ; 1 Corinthians 8:4 ; 1 Corinthians 8:7-13 ; 1 Corinthians 9:12 ; 1 Corinthians 9:27 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:9 ; Hebrews 12:15 ; Hebrews 12:16 ; Jud...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Indwelling Holy Spirit 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  All things — Which are lawful for you. Are lawful for me, but all things are not always expedient — Particularly when anything would offend my weak brother; or when it would enslave my own soul. Fo...

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