Romans 14:20
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.
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- Rom 14:14-15 : 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. 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.
- Acts 10:15 : 15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
- Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
- 1 Tim 4:3-5 : 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. 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.
- Matt 15:11 : 11 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
- Matt 18:6 : 6 “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.
- Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
- 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything. 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.
- 1 Cor 8:8-9 : 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.
- 1 Cor 10:31-33 : 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, 33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
- Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
- Phil 1:6 : 6 For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
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- Rom 14:21-233 verses87%
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.
- Rom 14:13-197 verses83%
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.
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.
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.
- 1 Cor 8:12-132 verses80%
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 14:1-33 verses78%
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.
- 1 Cor 8:7-104 verses78%
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?
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20 These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
- Mark 7:18-203 verses76%
18 He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)
20 He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.
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25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
- 1 Cor 10:27-282 verses75%
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–
- 1 Cor 10:31-322 verses74%
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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15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
- 1 Cor 6:12-132 verses74%
12 Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.
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.
- Rom 14:5-62 verses74%
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.
- 1 Tim 4:3-42 verses73%
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.
4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
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20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
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3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
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20 You may eat any clean winged creature.
- Lev 7:19-202 verses72%
19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.
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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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14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
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11 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
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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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3 We do not give anyone an occasion for taking an offense in anything, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
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10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
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47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
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23 Live to Glorify God“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.
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17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
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25 But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”