Romans 14:20
Do not for the sake of okhel bring churban to the work of Hashem. All okhel is tahor but it is wrong to eat anything that causes nisyonot.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19So then we pursue what makes for shalom and for the building up of one another.
Cross References
Matthew 15:11It is not the thing entering into the mouth that makes the man tameh (unclean), but the thing going out from the mouth, this makes the man tameh.
Acts 10:15And the bat kol came to Kefa again for a second time, What Hashem made tahor (clean), you should no longer regard as tameh (unclean). + 10:15 Gn 9:3
Romans 14:21It is a fine thing not to eat meat nor drink wine nor anything by which your Ach b'Moshiach stumbles.
1 Corinthians 8:8But okhel (food) will not usher us into the presence of Hashem; neither are we falling short if we do not eat okhel, nor are we better if we eat.
Ephesians 2:10For we are His masterpiece, having been created in Moshiach Yehoshua for ma'asim tovim, which Hashem prepared beforehand, that the derech of our halakhah should be in them. + 2:10 Isa 29:23; 42:7; 60:21 ;
1 Timothy 4:3Such will forbid nisu'im (marriage), commanding an issur (prohibition) against that ma'akhal which Hashem created for partaking with hodayah by the ma'aminim in Moshiach and by the ones who have da'as of HaEmes,
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 →