 | Joseph Beaumont, Mary Tatham - Methodist women - 1838 - 438 pages
...people. ' October 21. — I never was more fully convinced of the truth of those words of the apostle, "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." If we will live in fellowship alone with God, we must be abstracted from the world, from the pleasurable... | |
 | George Moberly - Sermons, English - 1838 - 424 pages
...how great things God hath done unto thee." 145 SERMON X. THINGS INDIFFERENT. 1 CORINTHIANS x. 23. " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful, but all things edify not." . . 158 SERMON XI. LOVE OF GOD. ST. MATTHEW xxii.... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1838 - 330 pages
...For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. 4 All things are lawful for me ; but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful for me ; but I will not be brought under the power of any. ' Whosoever shall... | |
 | John Howe - Puritans - 1838 - 662 pages
...doth he expound it 7 why, thus— that he kept himself from being under the power of any thing — " all things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." And even among these things it is that he resolved he would be under the power of nothing. Here is... | |
 | Saint John Chrysostom - Bible - 1839 - 380 pages
...a railer, or an extortioner; with such an one, no not to eat. HOMILY XVII. Page 224. 1 Cor. vi. 12. All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought into the power of any. CONTENTS. xix HOMILY... | |
 | Protestant association - 1855 - 404 pages
...interpreted by a Protestant people, deeply attached to these errors, Omnia licent, non omnia expedient, (All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient)." (Loud applause.) Without referring to Spain, Portugal, or Sardinia, I think I have said enough to show... | |
 | G. B. (Gracilla Boddington), Gracilla Boddington - Bible - 1839 - 240 pages
...eating the meat of sacrifices, St. Paul here repeats the same words he had used before, (vi. 12.) (23) " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." Things may be lawful in themselves, and yet not desirable ; because all things are not . profitable,... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 596 pages
...spirit of our God, through faith in Jesus Christ, and through the influence of 12. the Holy Spirit. All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient, though all things should be lawful for me, as free from the restraints of the ceremonial law, and from... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1840 - 686 pages
...enforced, in the morning, those words of St. Paul, (worthy to be written in the heart of every believer,) " All things are lawful for me ; but all things are not expedient ;" and, in the evening, that necessary advice of our Lord, " That men ought always to pray, and not... | |
 | John Davison - Christianity - 1840 - 694 pages
...undone by permissions which we enjoy. The Apostle speaks nearly the same sense, when he says, that " all things are lawful for me, but all things are " not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but " all things edify not." If usages of society then, which, simply... | |
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All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. 
