Romans 14:20

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Romans 14:20

Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others.

Romans 14:14-15

As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is 'impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.

Acts 10:15

Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy."

Titus 1:15

To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and consciences are polluted.

Matthew 15:11

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth--*that* defiles a man."

Matthew 18:6

But whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Romans 14:21

The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

1 Corinthians 8:8-13

It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.

1 Corinthians 10:31-33

Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

Philippians 1:6

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 4:3-5

forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Romans 14:20

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

For

1 Corinthians 10:31

The work

Ephesians 2:10

Philippians 1:6

All

Titus 1:15

General references

Philippians 2:4

Bible References

For

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

But whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.

Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.

The work

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

All

As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is 'impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth--*that* defiles a man."

Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy."

forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and consciences are polluted.

General references

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.