²⁰ Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong to make someone stumble by what you eat;

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.^{(A) 15} If your brother or sister is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.

Temptations to Sin

⁶ “If any of you cause one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,^[a] it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea.^(A)

¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.^(A)

¹⁵ The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”^(A)

³¹ So, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.^{(A) 32} Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,^{(B) 33} just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage but that of many, so that they may be saved.^(C)

Glorify God in Body and Spirit

¹² “All things are permitted for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are permitted for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. ¹³ “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,”^[a] and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.^(A)

²¹ it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.^[a](A)

³ They forbid marriage and abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.^{(A) 4} For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving,^{(B) 5} for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

¹¹ it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”^(A)