1 Corinthians 6:12

Flee Sexual Immorality

6:12 “All things are lawful for me” ¹  – but not everything is beneficial. “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything.

1 Corinthians 15:37

15:37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed ²  – perhaps of wheat or something else.

[6:12]  ¹ sn All things are lawful for me. In the expressions in vv. 12-13 within quotation marks, Paul cites certain slogans the Corinthians apparently used to justify their behavior. Paul agrees with the slogans in part, but corrects them to show how the Corinthians have misused these ideas.

[15:37]  ² tn Grk “and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed.”