 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 498 pàgines
...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)... | |
 | John Davison - 1840 - 694 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Wesley - 1840 - 686 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 372 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Hill - 1842 - 812 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 456 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1843 - 562 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Ignotus - 1843 - 94 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 842 pàgines
...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... | |
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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. 
