Romans 14:20

World English Bible (2000)

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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  • Rom 14:14-15 : 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 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.
  • Acts 10:15 : 15 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
  • 1 Tim 4:3-5 : 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • 1 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
  • 1 Cor 10:31-33 : 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God; 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:21-23
    3 verses
    87%

    21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

    22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.

    23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

  • Rom 14:13-19
    7 verses
    83%

    13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

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

    15 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.

    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

    17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

    19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

  • 1 Cor 8:12-13
    2 verses
    80%

    12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Rom 14:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

    2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

    3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
    4 verses
    78%

    7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

    8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

    9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

    10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

  • Matt 15:20
    76%

    20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

  • Mark 7:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    18 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

    19 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"

    20 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    75%

    25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

    28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

  • Titus 1:15
    74%

    15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

    13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Rom 14:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

    6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

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

    4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

  • Acts 15:20
    72%

    20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

  • Deut 14:3
    72%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deut 14:20
    72%

    20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 7:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

    20 but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • Acts 15:29
    72%

    29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

  • Acts 10:14
    72%

    14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

  • Matt 15:11
    72%

    11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

  • Heb 13:9
    71%

    9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

    3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

  • Deut 14:10
    71%

    10 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

  • Lev 11:47
    71%

    47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"

  • 1 Cor 10:23
    70%

    23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.

  • Matt 15:17
    70%

    17 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

  • Acts 21:25
    70%

    25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."