Romans 14:20
Do not overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles.
Cross References
Matthew 15:11That which enters into the mouth does not defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
Acts 10:15A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
Romans 14:21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles.
1 Corinthians 8:8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which 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 →