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.


In Context

9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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.

13 |Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,| but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

1 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:12"Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything.

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 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.