12"Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything.


In Context

9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

12 "Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything.

13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.

1st Corinthians 6:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:12All 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:12All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:12All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:12|All things are lawful for me,| but not all things are expedient. |All things are lawful for me,| but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I — I will not be under authority by any;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.