‘You, on the other hand, have turned from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have violated the covenant of Levi,’ says the Lord of Armies.
Romans 14:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised It is a good thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The right thing is to eat no meat or drink no wine [at all], or [do anything else] if it makes your brother stumble or hurts his conscience or offends or weakens him. American Standard Version (1901) It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth. Common English Bible It’s a good thing not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that trips your brother or sister. Catholic Public Domain Version It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is good not to eat flesh, and not to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended, or scandalized, or made weak. |
‘You, on the other hand, have turned from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have violated the covenant of Levi,’ says the Lord of Armies.
But he has no root and is short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
Jesus turned and told Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns but human concerns.’
Therefore, let us no longer judge one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in the way of your brother or sister.
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother or sister to fall.
But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.
so that you may approve the things that are superior and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.
But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.