| William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 pages
...his anger ? The strength of God should make sinners tremble." 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Our apostle having in the former part of this chapter resolved the case concerning... | |
| Samuel Hoole - 1833 - 340 pages
...religion ? To which we may answer in the words of the same apostle, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient."—" All things are...but I will not be brought under the power of any." Many things in themselves, abstractedly considered, may be perfectly innocent, which, in their effects... | |
| John Fletcher - Methodist Church - 1833 - 686 pages
...external objects, Paul spake like a heretical free wilier when he said, " All things [indifferent] are lawful for me ; but I will not be brought under the power of any." How foolish was this saying, if he could "no more help being brought under the irresistible power of... | |
| William Guthrie - Conversion - 1833 - 264 pages
...labouring not to come under the power of any lawful thing : •** All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but 1 will not be brought under the power of any :" nor 127 to give offence to others in the use of these... | |
| 1834 - 406 pages
...in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful...but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for shall destroy meats : but God both it and them. Wf Now the... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 596 pages
...shall find a restriction placed, even as regards lawful things : " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient, all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth,... | |
| Joseph Belcher - 1834 - 590 pages
...every thing that is lawful. The great apostle to the Gentiles saith, "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." I shall here give you, my daughter, the principal reasons why I think it inexpedient... | |
| Samuel Lee - 1835 - 202 pages
...Now, in 1 Cor. vi. 12, we have this D principle laid down, viz. " All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful...but I will not be brought under the power of any." By which I understand the apostle to say that the liberty with which Christ had made him free, had... | |
| Richard Parkinson (D.D.) - 1835 - 448 pages
...lawful. But as often as he asserts it, he adds a clause of great restraint : All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful...but I will not be brought under the power of any. All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful, but all things edify... | |
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