Originally Posted by Praxeas
1Co 6:12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
1Co 6:13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1Co 10:23 "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.
1Co 10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
1Co 10:25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
Paul is not saying we can live immoral lives. Food is nothing.
(1Co 10:31) So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
(1Co 10:32) Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
(1Co 10:33) just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
My NET bible commentary has a different view here. They claim this "all things are lawful to me" is what the Corinthians say, not Paul and that Paul was correcting their view.
Let me quote the NET
1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11 And such were some of you. 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.
1Co 6:12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
1Co 6:13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1Co 6:14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
1Co 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1Co 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
1Co 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
1Co 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1Co 6:20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Now, you have to remember that Gentiles were not required to keep the law. They were not forced to be circumcised etc etc. The only thing they admonished the Gentiles was the food thing and fornication (sexual impurity). Paul later explains the food issue more. So the Corinthians were kinda "drunk" on this idea of not being under the law of Moses and Paul was correcting their understanding that they can not just go do whatever they wanted. Thus his writings on food and why and his writings on fornication.
Read from chapter 5 through chapter 10 and you will see Paul specifically addresses foods and fornication or sexual immorality. This is the context of "all things are lawful"
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