Romans 14:20
Do not cast down the work of God for the sake of food; all things, indeed, [are] pure, but evil [is] to the man who is eating through stumbling.
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In Context
19So, then, may we pursue the things of peace, and the things of building up one another.
Cross References
Matthew 15:11[it is] not that which is coming into the mouth [that] defiles the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defiles the man.”
Acts 10:15and [there is] a voice again a second time to him: “What God cleansed, you do not declare common”;
Romans 14:21[It is] not right to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to [do anything] in which your brother stumbles, or is made to fall, or is weak.
1 Corinthians 8:8But food does not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
Ephesians 2:10for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus on good works, which God prepared before, that we may walk in them.
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry—to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging 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 →