Romans 14:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong to make someone stumble by what you eat;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You must not, for the sake of food, undo and break down and destroy the work of God! Everything is indeed [ceremonially] clean and pure, but it is wrong for anyone to hurt the conscience of others or to make them fall by what he eats.

American Standard Version (1901)

Overthrow not for meat’s sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Common English Bible

Don’t destroy what God has done because of food. All food is acceptable, but it’s a bad thing if it trips someone else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Do not be willing to destroy the work of God because of food. Certainly, all things are clean. But there is harm for a man who offends by eating.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Romans 14:20 Krydshenvisninger

Matthew 15:11

it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”

Matthew 18:6

“If any of you cause one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Acts 10:15

The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”

Romans 14:2

Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.

Romans 14:21

it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.

Philippians 1:6

I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.