Romans 14:15
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.
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- Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
- Phil 2:2-4 : 2 complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose. 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. 4 Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
- 1 Cor 8:11-12 : 11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed. 12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
- Gal 5:13 : 13 Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
- 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.
- 1 Cor 13:1 : 1 The Way of Love If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
- Ezek 13:22 : 22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies(although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.
- Rom 13:10 : 10 Love does no wrong 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. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
- Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.
- 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.
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- Rom 14:16-238 verses83%
16 Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.
17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.
19 So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
22 The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.
23 But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.
- 1 Cor 8:7-137 verses83%
7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
8 Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.
9 But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.
10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?
11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.
12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
- Rom 14:13-142 verses77%
13 Exhortation for the Strong not to Destroy the Weak Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.
14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.
- Rom 14:1-77 verses76%
1 Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.
2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.
3 The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.
4 Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.
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10 But you who eat vegetables only– why do you judge your brother or sister? And you who eat everything– why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
- 1 Cor 10:27-293 verses72%
27 If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.
28 But if someone says to you,“This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience–
29 I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
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25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
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13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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13 Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
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15 However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
- 2 Cor 5:14-152 verses70%
14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
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1 Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
- 1 Cor 11:33-342 verses69%
33 So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you assemble it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.
- 1 Cor 10:31-322 verses68%
31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
32 Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
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9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
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15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,
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29 For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.
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11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
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29 that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.
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19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)
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16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days–
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3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
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3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
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21 For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.