Romans 14:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ Do not for the sake of food destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but they are an evil to a man who eateth for a stumbling block.

¹¹ It is not that which goeth into the mouth which defileth the man; but it is that which cometh out of the mouth, which defileth the man.

⁶ But whoever shall occasion the stumbling of one of such little ones who believe in me, better were it for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were whelmed in the depth of the sea.

¹⁵ And a voice said to him a second time, What God hath cleansed call not thou that common.

¹⁴ I know and am fully assured by the Lord Jesus; that nothing is of itself unclean. But to him who thinketh any thing unclean, to him it is unclean. ¹⁵ Now if on account of thy food thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest According to love. Destroy not by thy food him for whom Christ died.

²¹ It is good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother falleth, or stumbleth, or is made weak.

¹² Are all things lawful for me! All things however are not expedient. Are all things lawful for me! I however will not be a slave to any thing. ¹³ Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats! But God will put a stop to the operation of both; But as for the body, it is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

⁸ Now food doth not recommend us to God. For if we eat we are not the better; nor are we the worse if we do not eat. ⁹ But take heed that this liberty of yours do not prove a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if one seeth thee who hast knowledge seated at table in an idol temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat the idol sacrifice? ¹¹ And shall the weak brother, for whom Christ died, be destroyed for thy knowledge? ¹² When you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Wherefore if meat cause my brother to stumble, I will never eat flesh that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

³¹ Whether then you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ³² Conduct yourselves so as to give no offence to Jews or Greeks, or the congregation of God, ³³ even as I do. In all things I please all men, not studying barely my own interest, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, fitted by Christ Jesus for good works, for which God had before prepared us that we might walk therein.

⁶ the same confidence, that he who hath begun a good work in you will continue completing it until the day of Jesus Christ;

³ forbidding marriage, and enjoining an abstinence from meats which God hath created to be partaken of with thankfulness by the faithful, and by them who are convinced of this truth, ⁴ that every thing which God created is good, and nothing to be rejected; for when taken with thankfulness ⁵ it is sanctified by the permission of God and prayer.

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are indeed pure but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Their mind and conscience are polluted: