Romans 14:21

American Standard Version (1901)

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth.

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  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
  • Rom 14:13 : 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;
  • Heb 12:13 : 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.
  • Matt 18:7-9 : 7 Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh! 8 And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. 9 And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire. [ 10 See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come! 2 It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

    19So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

    20Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
    7 verses
    83%

    7Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

    8But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

    9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

    10For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

    11For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

    12And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

    13Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

  • Rom 14:13-17
    5 verses
    81%

    13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.

    14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

    15For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

    16Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

    17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • Rom 14:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.

    23But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

  • Rom 14:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1But him that is weak in faith receive ye, [yet] not for decision of scruples.

    2One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

    3Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

    4Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.

    5One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike] . Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

    6He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord: and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

    32Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

  • Prov 23:20
    74%

    20Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
    3 verses
    73%

    27If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.

    28But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake:

    29conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

  • 1 Cor 10:23-25
    3 verses
    72%

    23All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

    24Let no man seek his own, but [each] his neighbor's [good] .

    25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    72%

    11but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

  • 1 Cor 11:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

    3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

  • Acts 15:29
    70%

    29that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

    1Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    70%

    23Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

  • Rom 14:10
    69%

    10But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    69%

    29For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.

  • Col 2:16
    69%

    16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12All 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.

    13Meats 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 Tim 4:3
    69%

    3forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

  • Hab 2:15
    69%

    15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, [to thee] that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

  • Jer 16:8
    69%

    8And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

  • Col 2:21
    68%

    21Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

  • Prov 23:31
    68%

    31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:

  • Prov 4:17
    68%

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.