Romans 14:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 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 : 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.
  • 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 ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may approve things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ;
  • Heb 12:13 : 13 And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 But He turned and said to Peter, Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.
  • Matt 18:7-9 : 7 Woe to the world because of offenses! For it must be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes! 8 Therefore if your hand or your foot offends you, cut them off and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life crippled or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 9 And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. 10 Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 Then he said to the disciples, It is inevitable that offenses will come: but woe to him through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

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

    20Do 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.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
    7 verses
    83%

    7However, 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.

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

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

    10For 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?

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

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

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

  • Rom 14:13-17
    5 verses
    81%

    13Let 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.

    14I 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.

    15But 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.

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

    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%

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

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

  • Rom 14:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

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

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

    3Let 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.

    4Who 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.

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

    6He 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.

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

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

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

  • Prov 23:20
    74%

    20Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

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

    27If 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.

    28But 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:

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

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

    23All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.

    24Let no one seek his own good, but each one the good of others.

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

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    72%

    11But 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.

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

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

    22What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

    3Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry may not be blamed:

  • Acts 15:29
    70%

    29that 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.

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    70%

    23No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

  • Rom 14:10
    69%

    10But 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.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    69%

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

  • Col 2:16
    69%

    16Let 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 6:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

    13Food 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.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    69%

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

  • Hab 2:15
    69%

    15Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

  • Jer 16:8
    69%

    8You shall not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

  • Col 2:21
    68%

    21"Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,"

  • Prov 23:31
    68%

    31Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly.

  • Prov 4:17
    68%

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