Romans 14:20

James Moffatt - New Testament

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;

Cross References

Matthew 18:6

But whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe in me, better for him to have a great mill-stone hung round his neck and be sunk in the deep sea.

Titus 1:15

For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

Acts 10:15

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

Romans 14:21

the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

Matthew 15:11

it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."

Ephesians 2:10

God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

Philippians 1:6

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Romans 14:2

While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables.