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All thingsΠάνταare permittedἔξεστινfor me,μοιbutἀλλ’notοὐall thingsπάνταare beneficial.συμφέρειAll thingsπάνταare permittedἔξεστινfor me,μοιbutἀλλ’Iἐγὼwill notοὐκbe masteredἐξουσιασθήσομαιbyὑπόanything.τινος
1 Corinthians 6:12
Study it in the app“All things are permitted for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.”
With the Greek beneath
1 Corinthians 6:12, word by word
- are permittedἔξεστινexestin
it is lawful
It is permitted, it is lawful under the law.
Where else “exestin” appears- are beneficialσυμφέρειsympherei
be useful
To be useful to someone.
Where else “sympherei” appears- be masteredἐξουσιασθήσομαιexousiasthēsomai
have authority over
Have authority over, exercise power over; in the passive, be mastered by something.
Where else “exousiasthēsomai” appears
Translation note
“All things are permitted for me” and “food for the stomach” (6:13) can be understood as sayings of the Corinthians that Paul quotes.
The context
11And such some of you were. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
12 · This verse (above)
13Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both the one and the other. But the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.