Verse 20

Destroy not the worke of God for meates sake. All thinges are pure: but it is euyll for that man, which eateth with offence.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:14-15 : 14 For I knowe, and am perswaded by the Lorde Iesus, that there is nothyng common of it selfe: but vnto hym that iudgeth it to be common, to hym is it common. 15 But yf thy brother be greeued with thy meat, nowe walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not hym with thy meat, for whom Christe dyed.
  • Acts 10:15 : 15 And the voyce spake vnto hym againe the seconde tyme: What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 Unto the pure, are all thynges pure: but vnto them that are defyled and vnbeleuyng, is nothyng pure, but euen the mynde and conscience of them is defyled.
  • 1 Tim 4:3-5 : 3 Forbidding to marrie & commaunding to abstayne from meates whiche God hath created to be receaued with geuing thankes, of them whiche beleue, and knowe the trueth. 4 For euery creature of God is good, and nothyng to be refused, yf it be receaued with thankes geuyng. 5 For it is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 That which goeth into the mouth, defyleth not the man: but that which commeth out of the mouth, defyleth the man.
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 But who so shall offende one of these litle ones, which beleue in me, it were better for hym, that a myll stone were hanged about his necke, & that he were drowned in the deapth of the sea.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good neither to eate fleshe, neither to drinke wine, neither any thyng wherby thy brother stumbleth, either falleth, or is made weake.
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 All thinges are lawfull vnto me, but al thinges are not profitable: Al things are lawfull vnto me, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any. 13 Meates are ordeyned for the belly, and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the body is not for fornication: but for the Lorde, and the Lorde for the body.
  • 1 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 But meate maketh vs not acceptable to God: For neither if we eate, haue we the more, neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse. 9 But take heede lest by any meanes this libertie of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake. 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meate in the idols temple: shal not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those thinges which are offred to idols, 11 And through thy knowledge shal the weake brother perishe, for whom Christe dyed? 12 When ye sinne so against the brethren, and wounde their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christe. 13 Wherefore, if meate offend my brother, I wyll eate no fleshe whyle the worlde standeth, lest I shoulde offende my brother.
  • 1 Cor 10:31-33 : 31 Whether therfore ye eate or drynke, or whatsoeuer ye do, do all to the prayse of God. 32 See that ye geue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor yet to the Grecians, neither to the Churche of God. 33 Euen as I please all men in all thynges, not seking myne owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christe Iesus vnto good workes, whiche God hath ordeyned that we shoulde walke in them.
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 And beyng perswaded of this same thyng, that he which hath begun good worke in you, wyll perfourme it vntyll the day of Iesus Christe,