Romans 14:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

It is good neither to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weake.

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  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.
  • Rom 14:13 : 13 Let vs not therefore iudge one another any more: but vse your iudgement rather in this, that no man put an occasion to fall, or a stumbling blocke before his brother.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdome of God, is not meate nor drinke, but righteousnes, and peace, and ioye in the holy Ghost.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 We which are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, & not to please our selues. 2 Therefore let euery man please his neighbour in that that is good to edification.
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 That ye may alowe those things which are best, that ye may be pure, and without offence vntill the day of Christ,
  • Heb 12:13 : 13 And make straight steppes vnto your feete, lest that which is halting, be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I haue a fewe things against thee, because thou hast there them that maintaine the doctrine of Balaam, which taught Balac to put a stumbling blocke before ye children of Israel, that they should eate of things sacrificed vnto Idoles, and commit fornication.
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 But yee are gone out of the way: yee haue caused many to fall by the Lawe: yee haue broken the couenant of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes.
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 Then he turned backe, and said vnto Peter, Get thee behinde me, Satan: thou art an offence vnto me, because thou vnderstandest not the thinges that are of God, but the thinges that are of men.
  • Matt 18:7-9 : 7 Wo be vnto the world because of offences: for it must needes be that offences shall come, but wo be to that man by whome the offence commeth. 8 Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foote cause thee to offend, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life, halt, or maimed, then hauing two hands, or two feete, to be cast into euerlasting fire. 9 And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, then hauing two eyes to be cast into hell fire. 10 See that ye despise not one of these litle ones: for I say vnto you, that in heauen their Angels alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in heauen.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 Then said he to his disciples, It can not be auoided, but that offences will come, but wo be to him by whome they come. 2 It is better for him that a great milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were cast into ye sea, then that he should offende one of these litle ones.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

    19Let vs then followe those things which concerne peace, and wherewith one may edifie another.

    20Destroy not the worke of God for meates sake: all things in deede are pure: but it is euill for the man which eateth with offence.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
    7 verses
    83%

    7But euery man hath not that knowledge: for many hauing conscience of the idole, vntill this houre, eate as a thing sacrificed vnto the idole, and so their conscience being weake, is defiled.

    8But meate maketh not vs acceptable to God, for neither if we eate, haue we the more: neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse.

    9But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.

    10For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at table in the idoles temple, shal not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those things which are sacrificed to idoles?

    11And through thy knowledge shall the weake brother perish, for whome Christ died.

    12Nowe when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.

    13Wherefore if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.

  • Rom 14:13-17
    5 verses
    81%

    13Let vs not therefore iudge one another any more: but vse your iudgement rather in this, that no man put an occasion to fall, or a stumbling blocke before his brother.

    14I know, and am perswaded through the Lord Iesus, that there is nothing vncleane of it selfe: but vnto him that iudgeth any thing to be vncleane, to him it is vncleane.

    15But if thy brother be grieued for the meate, nowe walkest thou not charitably: destroy not him with thy meate, for whome Christ dyed.

    16Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.

    17For the kingdome of God, is not meate nor drinke, but righteousnes, and peace, and ioye in the holy Ghost.

  • Rom 14:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22Hast thou faith? haue it with thy selfe before God: blessed is hee that condemneth not himselfe in that thing which he aloweth.

    23For he that doubteth, is condemned if he eate, because he eateth not of faith: and whatsoeuer is not of faith, is sinne.

  • Rom 14:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1Him that is weake in the faith, receiue vnto you, but not for controuersies of disputations.

    2One beleeueth that he may eate of all things: and another, which is weake, eateth herbes.

    3Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and let not him which eateth not, condemne him that eateth: for God hath receiued him.

    4Who art thou that condemnest another mans seruant? Hee standeth or falleth to his owne master: yea, he shalbe established: for God is able to make him stand.

    5This man esteemeth one day aboue another day, & another ma counteth euery day alike: let euery man be fully perswaded in his minde.

    6He that obserueth the day, obserueth it to the Lord: and he that obserueth not the day, obserueth it not to the Lorde. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord: for he giueth God thankes: and he that eateth not, eateth not to the Lord, and giueth God thankes.

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

    31Whether therefore ye eate, or drinke, or whatsoeuer ye doe, doe all to the glory of God.

    32Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of God:

  • Prov 23:20
    74%

    20Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.

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

    27If any of them which beleeue not, call you to a feast, and if ye wil go, whatsoeuer is set before you, eate, asking no question for conscience sake.

    28But if any man say vnto you, This is sacrificed vnto idoles, eate it not, because of him that shewed it, and for the conscience (for the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is)

    29And the conscience, I say, not thine, but of that other: for why should my libertie be condemned of another mans conscience?

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

    23All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawfull for me, but all things edifie not.

    24Let no man seeke his owne, but euery man anothers wealth.

    25Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, eate ye, and aske no question for conscience sake.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    72%

    11But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together: if any that is called a brother, be a fornicatour, or couetous, or an idolater, or a rayler, or a drunkard, or an extorsioner, with such one eate not.

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

    21For euery man when they should eate, taketh his owne supper afore, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22Haue ye not houses to eate & to drinke in? despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that haue not? what shal I say to you? shall I prayse you in this? I prayse you not.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

    3We giue no occasion of offence in any thing, that our ministerie shoulde not be reprehended.

  • Acts 15:29
    70%

    29That is, that ye absteine from things offered to idoles, and blood, and that that is strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, ye shall doe well. Fare ye well.

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

    1We which are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, & not to please our selues.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    70%

    23Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomakes sake, and thine often infirmities.

  • Rom 14:10
    69%

    10But why doest thou condemne thy brother? Or why doest thou despise thy brother? for we shal all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3Thou shalt eate no maner of abominatio.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    69%

    29For he that eateth and drinketh vnworthily, eateth and drinketh his owne damnation, because he discerneth not the Lords body.

  • Col 2:16
    69%

    16Let no man therefore condemne you in meate and drinke, or in respect of an holy day, or of the newe moone, or of the Sabbath dayes,

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

    12All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing.

    13Meates are ordeined for the bellie, & the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    69%

    3Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.

  • Hab 2:15
    69%

    15Wo vnto him that giueth his neighbour drinke: thou ioynest thine heate, & makest him drunken also, that thou mayest see their priuities.

  • Jer 16:8
    69%

    8Thou shalt not also goe into the house of feasting to sit with them to eate and to drinke.

  • Col 2:21
    68%

    21As, Touch not, Taste not, Handle not.

  • Prov 23:31
    68%

    31Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.

  • Prov 4:17
    68%

    17For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.