Romans 14:20 - Easy To Read Version

²⁰ Don’t let the eating of food destroy the work of God. All food is right to eat. But it is wrong for a person to eat something that makes another person fall into sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ You must not, for the sake of food, undo and break down and destroy the work of God! Everything is indeed [ceremonially] clean and pure, but it is wrong for anyone to hurt the conscience of others or to make them fall by what he eats.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Overthrow not for meat’s sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Don’t destroy what God has done because of food. All food is acceptable, but it’s a bad thing if it trips someone else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Do not be willing to destroy the work of God because of food. Certainly, all things are clean. But there is harm for a man who offends by eating.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Romans 14:20 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 15:11

It is not the things a person puts in his mouth that make him wrong. {\cf2\super [206]} It is the things a person says with his mouth that make him wrong.”

Matthew 18:6

“If one of these little children believes in me, and another person causes that child to sin, then it will be very bad for that person. It would be better for that person to have a millstone {\cf2\super [251]} tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea.

Acts 10:15

But the voice said to him again, “God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them ‘unholy’!”

Romans 14:2

One person believes that he can eat any kind of food {\cf2\super [141]} he wants. But if another person’s faith is weak, then that person believes he can eat only vegetables.

Romans 14:21

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine if that makes your brother or sister fall into sin. It is better not to do anything that will make your brother or sister sin.

Ephesians 2:10

God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would do good things. God had already planned those good things for us. God had planned for us to live our lives doing those good things.

Philippians 1:6

God began doing good things with you. And God is continuing that work in you. God will finish that work in you when Jesus Christ comes again. I am sure of that.

Titus 1:15

To people that are pure, all things are pure. But to people who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, those people’s thinking has become evil and their knowledge of what is right has been ruined.