Romans 14:13-21

Modern English Version

Do Not Make Your Brother Stumble

¹³ Therefore let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather determine not to put a stumbling block or an obstacle in a brother’s way. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food one for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ So do not let what is good to you be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God does not mean eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

¹⁹ Therefore let us pursue the things which produce peace and the things that build up one another. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil for the man who causes someone to fall by what he eats. ²¹ It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine, nor do anything whereby your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.