Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 1Cor 10:23

“All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.”

“All things are lawful for me, &c.--Recurring to the Corinthian plea (Co1 6:12), he repeats his qualification of it. The oldest manuscripts omit both times "for me." edify not--tend not to build up the spiritual temple, the Church, in faith and love. Paul does not appeal to the apostolic decision (Acts 15:1-29), which seems to have been not so much regarded outside of Palestine, but rather to the broad principle of true Christian freedom, which does not allow us to be governed by external things, as though, because we can use them, we must use them (Co1 6:12). Their use or non-use is to be regulated by regard to edification.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.