Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 6:12-13

"All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:" — 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 (ASV)

All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them.

So, on the one hand, do not make too much of abstaining from this or that, for these things, after all, are but small matters to glory in; but, on the other hand, let no man ever call himself a Christian while he is a slave to any evil habit. What says Paul? God shall destroy both it and them. In the previous verse, he says, I will not be brought under the power of any. The immortal spirit under the power of materialism? Indeed, that must never be.