Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are ‘clean’; however it is wrong for the man who gives offence by eating.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
19So then, let us pursue the things that promote peace and the things by which one may edify another.
Cross References
Matthew 15:11Not what goes into the mouth defiles the man, but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles the man.”
Acts 10:15So the voice came to him a second time, “What (pl) God has made clean you must not call ‘common’!”
Romans 14:21It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weakened.
1 Corinthians 8:8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better off, nor if we do not eat are we worse off.
Ephesians 2:10You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.
1 Timothy 4:3who forbid to marry and to eat foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and really 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 →