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NASB | 1 Corinthians 6:12 ¶ All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 6:12 ¶ Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me]. |
Bible Question: in 1st corinthinas it says the only sin against the body is fornication so by that does it mean that it is not a sin to smoke tobacco |
Bible Answer: Question: "What is the Christian view of smoking? Is smoking a sin?" Answer: The Bible never mentions smoking. It is plainly clear, though, that smoking is a sin. The Bible commands us to not allow our bodies to become "mastered" by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12 declares, "Everything is permissible for me"-but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me" - but I will not be mastered by anything." Later in the same passage we are told, "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body" (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). The context of the passage is not smoking, but the principle applies. Part of honoring God with our bodies is not doing something that we know is harmful to our bodies. Even the smoking industry admits that smoking is both addictive and harmful to our bodies. Therefore, a Christian should not dishonor both God and his own body by smoking. http://www.gotquestions.org/smoking-Christian-sin.html Every sin that a man does is without the body; he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body (1Co_6:18); every sin, that is, every other sin, every external act of sin besides, is without the body. It is not so much an abuse of the body as of somewhat else, as of wine by the drunkard, food by the glutton, etc. Nor does it give the power of the body to another person. Nor does it so much tend to the reproach of the body and render it vile. This sin is in a peculiar manner styled uncleanness, pollution, because no sin has so much external turpitude in it, especially in a Christian. He sins against his own body; he defiles it, he degrades it, making it one with the body of that vile creature with whom he sins. He casts vile reproach on what he Redeemer has dignifies to the last degree by taking it into union with himself. Note, We should not make our present vile bodies more vile by sinning against them. – Matthew Henry WOS |