Romans 14:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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

²¹ 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)

²¹ It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

Common English Bible

²¹ 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

²¹ 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

²¹ 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.

Romans 14:21 Cross References

Malachi 2:8

But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,

Matthew 13:21

yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.

Matthew 16:23

But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

Romans 14:13

Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother or sister.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never again eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

Philippians 1:10

to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless,

Hebrews 12:13

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.