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See also 1 Corinthians 6:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Corinthians 6:12. _ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL UNTO ME_] It is likely that some of the Corinthians had pleaded that the offence of the man who had his father's wife, as well as the eating the thing...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 6 __ 1. Concerning Disputes before Heathen Courts. (1 Corinthians 6:1). 2. The Holiness of Believers; Their Bodies the Temples of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:8). Instead of settling t...

  • 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 Corinth...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    True, all things are allowed to me; but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed to me, but I will not allow any thing to get control of me. Foods were made for the stomach and the stoma...

  • 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 _exousiazo,_ to have aut

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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 followe...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE GUILT OF THE FORNICATOR 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 by the Apostle. At present he take...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΠΆΝΤΑ ΜΟΙ ἜΞΕΣΤΙΝ. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO ME. See Soph. _Aj._ 346, προσβλέπειν ἔξεστί σοι τὰ τοῦδε πράγη, Marc. Aurel. _Medit._ IV. 17, ἕως ζῇς, ἕως ἔξεστιν, ἀγαθὸς γένου. So also Xen. _Oec._ II....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _CHRISTIANS BELONG TO GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-14:_ Those that are saved are changed people. Before their conversion some of the Corinthians had been, "fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abu...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΞΕΣΤΙΝ (G1832) _praes. ind. act._ безличн. позволено, разрешено, с эпэкз. _inf._ Очевидно, Павел цитирует известное в Коринфе высказывание (Weiss; Barrett; NW 2, 1:281; SB, 3:365; Schrage; TDNT). ΣΥ...

  • 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....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Defilers Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:12-20) 12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be enslave...

  • 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 words on s...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...

  • 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; and...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL] cp. 1 Corinthians 10:23. St. Paul seems to have stated this as a principle in regard to the use of certain kinds of food (e.g. meats offered to idols, 1 Corinthians 10:25;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'It is true as you suggest that “all things are lawful” but this is not an absolute but a relative principle. You must not argue that the existence of appetites proves the lawfulness of th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 CHRISTIANS AND THE LAW COURTS 6:1-8 V1 Suppose that one of you has a reason to complain against another Christian. You may take your pro...

  • 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 by s...

  • 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 seemed...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Πάντα μοι ἔξεστιν stands twice here, and twice in 1 Corinthians 10:23; P. harps on the saying in a way to indicate that it was a watchword with some Cor [965] party perhaps amongst both Paulinists and...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 19. THE SANCTITY OF THE BODY, The laxity of morals distinguishing the Cor [964] Church was in some instances defended, or half-excused, by appealing to the principle of _Christian liberty_, which P....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    KEEPING THE BODY HOLY 1 Corinthians 6:12 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,

  • 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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Christians Are A Part of Christ's Body Christians are free to do anything that is not sinful. The Corinthians had misapplied their freedom to sinful activities. As God's inspired spokesman, Paul said...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (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 Corinthians...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    All things are lawful to me. We cannot take the words in the obvious sense, St. Paul having just before declared, that unjust dealers, fornicators, drunkards, shall not possess the kingdom of God. Som...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    IV. IMPURITY. 6:12-20. It has sometimes been imagined that the apostle was here resuming the subject of chap. 5, from which he had allowed himself to be diverted by the question of lawsuits. But we ha...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “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.” Paul himself had no doubt uttered this maxim at Corin...

  • 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:...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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, without men...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    1 Corinthians 6:1-11 treats the subject of wrongs. It was shameful that those who were to judge the world and the angels should be incapable of judging the paltry affairs of this world. Let the least...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 the pe...

  • 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 indifferent...

  • 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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL; which are not forbidden of God. NOT EXPEDIENT; because not adapted to do good. NOT BE BROUGHT UNDER THE POWER; he would not be the slave of any appetite or passion. A wise man...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE NECESSITY OF KEEPING THE BODY UNDEFILED. Christian expediency:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of 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....

  • Leslie 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    EXPEDIENT: Or, profitable...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    FORNICATION-1 CORINTHIANS 6:12-20: Introductory Comments: 'You'll note that Paul speaks of men in this section (and not women) as committing fornication. And with harlots (not simply women in general...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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, think...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. [The abruptness here suggests that, in palliation of their undue laxity and toleration, they had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) urg...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV For it is in man's power to disobey God, and to forfeit what is good; but [such conduct] brings no small amount of injury and mischief. And on this account Paul says...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 6:12 things G3956 lawful G1832 (G5748) me G3427 but G235 things G3956 are G4851 not G3756 h

  • 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 brought u...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    From wrong-doing in one particular the apostle is now led to speak of wrong-doing in its widest sense, but emphatically of that form of it already dealt with in part....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 6:12. ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME, BUT NOT ALL THINGS ARE EXPEDIENT. ‘In things indifferent, such as the eating of meats forbidden under the ceremonial law, the Gospel has made all thin...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    LAWFUL (εξεστιν). Apparently this proverb may have been used by Paul in Corinth (repeated in 1 Corinthians 10:23), but not in the sense now used by Paul's opponents. The "all things" do not include...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 could b...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Saints forbidden to go to law with each other. Sanctity of the body. The body the Lord's temple. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Contention of Christians before the law i...

  • 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 is...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    I AM ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING. Paul taught that a Christian was free from human rules that said: "Don't handle this, Don't taste that, Don't touch the other" (Colossians 2:21). Some thought this gave th...

  • 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 rectit...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient._ THE LAWFUL AND THE EXPEDIENT I. What is lawful for us in life? All things indifferent, _i.e._, not evil in themselves. The Christian h...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12 Some Corinthian Christians were engaging in sex with prostitutes. Paul reminds them that the bodies of Christians are one with the resurrected Christ and that,...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle passes on to the subject of lawsuits and trials, and reproves the Corinthians for instituting proceedings before the heathen judges, and he declares...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient._ All things, say Theodoret and Œcumenius, are through free-will lawful unto me, are in my power, _e.g_., to commit fornication, to rob...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ SECOND MAIN TOPIC.— 1 Corinthians 6:12 1 Corinthians 6:12. LAWFUL.—Here, and in 1 Corinthians 10:23. To be put in quotation marks, “All … lawful.” His own word

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 _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 _audacious _defiance of

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Paul brings up another issue, and that was the taking of a brother before the pagan courts. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saint...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Are lawful [ε ξ ε σ τ ι ν]. There is a play between this word and ejxousiasqhsomai be brought under the power, which can hardly be accurately conveyed to the English reader. The nearest approach to it...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest we fall,...

  • 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. For t...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Our apostle still proceeds in the reprehensory part of his epistle, and begins here to reprove the growing heresy of the Gnostics and Nicolaitans among them, who allowed the eating OF THINGS SACRIFICE...

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