Romans 14:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But if thy bther be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Desty not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For{G1161} if{G1487} because{G1223} of meat{G1033} thy{G4675} brother{G80} is grieved,{G3076} {G3765} thou{G4043} walkest no{G3765} longer{G2596} in love.{G26} Destroy{G622} not{G3361} with{G1033} thy{G4675} meat{G1033} him{G1565} for{G5228} whom{G3739} Christ{G5547} died.{G599}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But{G1161} if{G1487} thy{G4675} brother{G80} be grieved{G3076}{(G5743)} with{G1223} thy meat{G1033}, now{G3765} walkest thou{G4043}{(G5719)} not{G3765} charitably{G26}{G2596}. Destroy{G622}{(G5720)} not{G3361} him{G1565} with thy{G4675} meat{G1033}, for{G5228} whom{G3739} Christ{G5547} died{G599}{(G5627)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    If thy brother be greved with thy meate now walkest thou not charitablye. Destroye not him with thy meate for whom Christ dyed.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But yf yi brother be greued ouer yi meate, the walkest thou not now after charite. Destroye not wt thy meate, him, for whom Christ dyed,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

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

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But yf thy brother be greeued with thy meat, nowe walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not hym with thy meat, for whom Christe dyed.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

Referenced Verses

  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Phil 2:2-4 : 2 Fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vanity; but in humility let each consider others better than themselves. 4 Do not look out only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-12 : 11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when you sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • 1 Cor 13:1 : 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love is patient, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not proud, 5 Does not behave itself rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs;
  • Ezek 13:22 : 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life.
  • Rom 13:10 : 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
  • Rom 14:20 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
  • Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

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  • Rom 14:16-23
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    83%

    16 Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

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

    18 For anyone who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

    19 Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.

    20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

    21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

    22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

    23 But whoever doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
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    83%

    7 However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

    9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

    11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

    12 But when you sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

    13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.

  • Rom 14:13-14
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    77%

    13 Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

    14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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    76%

    1 Accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to engage in contentious debates.

    2 For one believes he may eat all things, but another, who is weak, eats only herbs.

    3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who does not eat, and let not the one who does not eat judge the one who eats; for God has accepted him.

    4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he will be upheld, for God is able to make him stand.

    5 One person values one day over another; another values every day alike. Let each person be fully convinced in their own mind.

    6 He who regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he who does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

    7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

  • Rom 14:10
    73%

    10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
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    27 If any of those who do not believe invite you to a meal, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

    28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

    29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience?

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    72%

    25 Whatever is sold in the market, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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    15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another.

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    14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died:

    15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

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    1 We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 1 Cor 11:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

    34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32 Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

  • Heb 13:9
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    9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

  • Jas 2:15
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    15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food,

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    29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the Lord’s body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

  • Acts 15:29
    68%

    29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

  • Mark 7:19
    68%

    19 Because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, purging all foods?

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    68%

    16 Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days;

  • 1 Cor 13:3
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    3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    67%

    3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.

  • 1 Cor 11:21
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    21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.