But you have turned from the way. You caused many to stumble in Torah by the instruction, You corrupted the covenant of the Levites,” —says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Romans 14:21 - Tree of Life Version It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother stumbles. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth. Common English Bible 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 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 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. |
But you have turned from the way. You caused many to stumble in Torah by the instruction, You corrupted the covenant of the Levites,” —says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Yet he has no root himself but lasts only a short while; and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, satan! You are a stumbling block to Me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but the things of men.”
Therefore let us not judge one another from now on, but rather decide this—not to put a stumbling block or a trap in the way of a brother.
for the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and shalom and joy in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
For this reason, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I do not cause my brother to stumble.
But watch out that this freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
in order to approve what is excellent—so that in the Day of Messiah you may be sincere and blameless,
And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be pulled out of joint but rather be healed.
“But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who was teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before Bnei-Yisrael, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.