Romans 14:20

The Text-Critical English New Testament

Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes another to stumble.

Cross References

Matthew 15:11

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

Matthew 18:6

but if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Acts 10:15

The voice came to him again a second time: “Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.”

Romans 14:2

One person believes that he may eat anything, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which yoʋr brother stumbles or is offended or made weak.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Philippians 1:6

I am confident that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.