Romans 14:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

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  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
  • Phil 2:2-4 : 2 Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind; 3 Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself; 4 Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-12 : 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death. 12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
  • 1 Cor 13:1 : 1 If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
  • Ezek 13:22 : 22 Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life:
  • Rom 13:10 : 10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.
  • Rom 14:20 : 20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
  • Rom 15:2 : 2 Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

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  • Rom 14:16-23
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    16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

    17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

    18 And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.

    19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

    20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

    21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

    22 The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

    23 But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
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    7 Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.

    8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

    9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

    10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

    11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.

    12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

    13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

  • Rom 14:13-14
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    13 Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

    14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

  • Rom 14:1-7
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    1 Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

    2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

    3 Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

    4 Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

    5 This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.

    6 He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

    7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

  • Rom 14:10
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    10 But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
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    27 If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.

    28 But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

    29 Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25 Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • Gal 5:15
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    15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

    15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

    1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

  • 1 Cor 11:33-34
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    33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to the holy meal of the Lord, let there be waiting for one another.

    34 If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
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    31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32 Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.

  • Heb 13:9
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    9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

  • Jas 2:15
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    15 If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,

  • 1 Cor 11:29
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    29 For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11 But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29 To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

  • Mark 7:19
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    19 Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.

  • Col 2:16
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    16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

  • 1 Cor 13:3
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    3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3 Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

  • 1 Cor 11:21
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    21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.