Romans 14:20
Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes another to stumble.
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
19So then, let us pursue what brings about peace and mutual edification.
Cross References
Matthew 15:11It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
Acts 10:15The voice came to him again a second time: “Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.”
Romans 14:21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which yoʋr brother stumbles or is offended or made weak.
1 Corinthians 8:8But food does not bring us close to God. For we are no better off if we eat, and no worse off if we do not eat.
Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
1 Timothy 4:3They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God 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 →