Romans 14:20
Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
19Therefore let us aim at whatever makes for peace and mutual upbuilding of character.
Cross References
Matthew 15:11It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth-- *that* defiles a man."
Acts 10:15Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy."
Romans 14:21The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.
1 Corinthians 8:8It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.
Ephesians 2:10For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of 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 →