Romans 14:20 Cross References - Goodspeed

²⁰ You must not, just for the sake of food, undo the work of God. It is true, everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to hurt the consciences of others by what he eats.

¹¹ "Listen to this, and grasp it! It is not what goes into a man's mouth that pollutes him; it is what comes out of his mouth that pollutes a man."

⁶ But whoever hinders one of these children who believe in me might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be sunk in the open sea.

¹⁵ The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

¹⁴ I know and as a follower of the Lord Jesus I am convinced that nothing is unclean in itself; a thing is unclean only to the man who regards it as unclean. ¹⁵ For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

²¹ The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience.

¹² I may do anything I please, but not everything I may do is good for me. I may do anything I please; but I am not going to let anything master me. ¹³ It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

⁸ But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do. ⁹ But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous. ¹⁰ For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols? ¹¹ For this overscrupulous brother, for whom Christ died, is ruined by what you call your knowledge. ¹² But in sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their too scrupulous consciences, you are really sinning against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.

³¹ So whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything else, do it all to the honor of God. ³² You must not be hindrances to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God either, ³³ just as I for my part try to please everyone in all I do, not aiming at my own advantage, but at that of people generally, in order that they may be saved.

¹⁰ For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

⁶ For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ.

³ who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for. ⁴ For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by prayer and the Scripture used in it.

¹⁵ To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.