1 Corinthians 1-:23-34, 52-15:1 annotated

1 Corinthians 10:23-24, 32-15:1 (NJB)

'Everything is permissible'; maybe so, but not everything does good. True, everything is permissible, but not everything builds people up. Nobody should be looking for selfish advantage, but everybody for someone else's.

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Never be a cause for offence, either to Jews or to Greeks or to the Church of God, just as I try to accommodate everybody in everything, not looking for my own advantage, but for the advantage of everybody else, so that they may be saved. Take me as your pattern, just as I take Christ for mine.

good, advantage= συμφέρω =symphero

to bring together; to be an advantage, profitable, expedient (not merely 'convenient'); to carry with others; to collect or contribute in order to help; to bear together or at the same time

builds people up= οἰκοδομέω = oikodomeo

used metaphorically, in the sense of "edifying," promoting the spiritual growth and development of character of believers, by teaching or by example, suggesting such spiritual progress as the result of patient labor; to build (up from the foundation); to restore by building, to rebuild, repair; by action, instruction, exhortation, comfort, promot[ing] the Christian wisdom of others and help them to live a correspondent life

looking for= ζητέω = zeteo

to seek after, endeavor;inquire for; metaphorically, to "seek" by thinking, to "seek" how to do something;strive after, desire; to seek (i. e. in order to find out) by thinking, meditating, reasoning; to inquire into

someone else's= ἕτερος = heteros

the other; another: i.e. one not of the same nature, form, class, kind, different; any other person whatever, stands for 'the other affected by the action in question'

Never be a cause for offence=ἀπρόσκοπος = aproskopos

not causing to stumble; refraining from doing anything to lead astray; not leading others to sin by one's mode of life; inoffensive

accommodate= ἀρέσκω = aresko

to be pleasing to, be acceptable to; to endeavor to please; to render service;to accommodate one's self to the opinions desires and interests of others

saved= σῴζω = sozo

to heal; to make whole; the idea is that of saving from disease and its effects; restoration to health; material and temporal deliverance from danger, suffering, etc.; to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction; to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue; to make well, heal, restore to health;to bring safe forth from