Romans 14:15

James Moffatt - New Testament

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

Ephesians 5:2

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 Corinthians 8:1

With regard to food that has been offered to idols. Here, of course, 'we all possess knowledge'! Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.

Romans 15:2

Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

Romans 14:20

You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats;

1 John 2:2

he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

1 Corinthians 13:1

Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal;

Romans 13:10

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

2 Peter 2:1

Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,