Romans 14:20
Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 15:11That which enters the mouth does not defile the man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
Acts 10:15And the voice came to him again a second time: What God has cleansed, you must not call common.
Romans 14:21It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.
1 Corinthians 8:8But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.
Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.
1 Timothy 4:3who forbid to marry, and command to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe, and know the truth.
Matthew Henry on Romans 14:2-23
Exhortations to Candour; The Dominion of Christ. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. 2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. 5… Read the whole commentary →