Romans 14:21

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 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 14:13 : 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.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
  • Heb 12:13 : 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which 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 some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw 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 aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."
  • Matt 18:7-9 : 7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. 9 If your eye causes you to stumble, 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 the Gehenna of fire. 10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should 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, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

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

    20 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.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
    7 verses
    83%

    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?

    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.

  • Rom 14:13-17
    5 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Rom 14:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    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 14:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    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.

    4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

    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 Cor 10:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    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;

  • Prov 23:20
    74%

    20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

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

    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."

    29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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

    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.

    24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

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

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    72%

    11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

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

    21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

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

  • Acts 15:29
    70%

    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."

  • Rom 15:1
    70%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    70%

    23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

  • Rom 14:10
    69%

    10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    69%

    29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.

  • Col 2:16
    69%

    16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    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 Tim 4:3
    69%

    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.

  • Hab 2:15
    69%

    15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

  • Jer 16:8
    69%

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

  • Col 2:21
    68%

    21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch"

  • Prov 23:31
    68%

    31 Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

  • Prov 4:17
    68%

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