Romans 14:21
19 So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
22 Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
23 But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
- KJV
- It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
- WEB
- It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
- ASV
- It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth.
- DARBY
- [It is] right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor [do anything] in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.
- BLB
- [It is] good neither to eat meat nor to drink wine nor [anything] in which your brother stumbles.
- ÅB
- Det er godt å la være å spise kjøtt eller drikke vin, eller å gjøre noe annet som din bror snubler over.
- OTB
- Det er bedre å ikke spise kjøtt eller drikke vin eller gjøre noe annet som vil få din bror eller søster til å falle.
- B1930
- det er godt ikke å ete kjøtt eller drikke vin eller gjøre noget som din bror støter sig ved.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
Read in contextRomans 14:13
Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
Read in contextRomans 15:1–2
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
Read in contextLuke 17:1–2
Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
Read in contextMatthew 16:23
But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
Read in contextMatthew 18:7–10
Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
Read in contextMalachi 2:8
But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:10
so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
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