Romans 14:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 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 : 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.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves. 2 Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;
  • Heb 12:13 : 13 And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.
  • Matt 18:7-9 : 7 A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes. 8 And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire. 10 Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come. 2 It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

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

    20Do 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.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
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    83%

    7Still, 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.

    8But 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.

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

    10For 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?

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

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

    13For 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 14:13-17
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    81%

    13Then 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.

    14I 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.

    15And 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.

    16Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

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

  • Rom 14:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22The 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.

    23But 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.

  • Rom 14:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

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

    3Let 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.

    4Who 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.

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

    6He 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
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    75%

    31So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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

  • Prov 23:20
    74%

    20Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

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

    27If 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.

    28But 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:

    29Right 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 10:23-25
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    72%

    23We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

    24Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

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

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    72%

    11But 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.

  • 1 Cor 11:21-22
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    71%

    21For 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.

    22What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

    3Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

  • Acts 15:29
    70%

    29To 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.

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

  • Rom 14:10
    69%

    10But 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.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    69%

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

  • Col 2:16
    69%

    16For 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 6:12-13
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    69%

    12I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

    13Food 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:

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    69%

    3Who 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.

  • Hab 2:15
    69%

    15A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • Jer 16:8
    69%

    8And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Col 2:21
    68%

    21Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

  • Prov 23:31
    68%

    31Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

  • Prov 4:17
    68%

    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.