Romans 14:20 English Standard Version
20 (A)Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. (B)Everything is indeed clean, but (C)it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.
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Romans 14:14-15 English Standard Version
14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus (A)that nothing is unclean in itself, (B)but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. 15 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, (C)you are no longer walking in love. (D)By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
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Matthew 18:6 English Standard Version
6 but (A)whoever causes one of these (B)little ones who believe in me to sin,[a] it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
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- Matthew 18:6 Greek causes… to stumble; also verses 8, 9
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Titus 1:15 English Standard Version
15 (A)To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and (B)unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both (C)their minds and their consciences are defiled.
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Acts 10:15 English Standard Version
15 And the voice came to him again a second time, (A)“What God has made clean, do not call common.”
Read full chapter1 Corinthians 10:31-33 English Standard Version
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or (A)whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 (B)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to (C)the church of God, 33 just as (D)I try to please everyone in everything I do, (E)not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
Read full chapter1 Corinthians 6:12-13 English Standard Version
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12 (A)“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 (B)“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one (C)and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but (D)for the Lord, and (E)the Lord for the body.
Read full chapterRomans 14:21 English Standard Version
21 (A)It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.[a]
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- Romans 14:21 Some manuscripts add or be hindered or be weakened
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1 Timothy 4:3-5 English Standard Version
3 (A)who forbid marriage and (B)require abstinence from foods (C)that God created (D)to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For (E)everything created by God is good, and (F)nothing is to be rejected if it is (G)received with thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy (H)by the word of God and prayer.
Read full chapterMatthew 15:11 English Standard Version
11 (A)it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”
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1 Corinthians 8:8-13 English Standard Version
8 (A)Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 9 But take care (B)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block (C)to the weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 11 And so by your knowledge this weak person is (D)destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against your brothers[c] and (E)wounding their conscience when it is weak, (F)you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, (G)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Greek reclining at table
- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Or fortified; Greek built up
- 1 Corinthians 8:12 Or brothers and sisters
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Philippians 1:6 English Standard Version
6 And I am sure of this, that he who began (A)a good work in you (B)will bring it to completion at (C)the day of Jesus Christ.
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