 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 498 pages
...precept, and by reference to his own example, the principles which should determine that expediency. *" All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no man seek his own (advantage solely)... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1841 - 372 pages
...to alienate the affections from God, and to fix them on other beings or objects, is a sin of the 23 All « things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for a c.6.12. me, but all things edify not. •> 24 Let * no man seek his own,... | |
 | George Hill - Apologetics - 1842 - 812 pages
...consciences of others, ought to refrain from doing what their own conscience would permit them to do. " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient ; all things edify not."t The New Testament, moreover, furnishes an instance in which the liberty of... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...XV. 233 made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some, &c. — 1 Cor. ix. 19—22. All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient, &c. all things edify not ; let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth : whatsoever is... | |
 | Education - 1863 - 456 pages
...the Apostle Paul felt when he said (evidently bearing in mind those who were weak in the faith), " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient ; all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." In the case of children, you must set before... | |
 | Ignotus - Oxford movement - 1843 - 94 pages
...appeared since the days of Bishop Butler." This coincidence is, to say the least, remarkable ; — " all things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient," says St. Paul. Unless there be some influence higher than his own judgment, overruling and determining... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - Bible - 1843 - 562 pages
...should be abstained from or allowed, at certain seasons of the year? But to say with the apostle, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient : I will not be brought under the power of any." 9 To say, " I will eat no meat whilst the world standeth,... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference - 1844 - 646 pages
...the Church in the days of the great apostle to the Gentiles, he said, in reference to this point, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." Shall we ask Bishop Andrew to pay this tribute to expediency ? Why , if it were lawful to demand it,... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 842 pages
...man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." And, again, upon that text : " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient:" and, consequently, will attire herself on the Sunday morning, not as vanity would dictate — not as... | |
 | Hope - 1845 - 396 pages
...nowhere sanctioned by Scripture in any matter _ J which involves principle. The Apostle does indeed say, All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient, but he is referring to things in themselves indifferent. The grand question ought to be what is right... | |
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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. 
