Romans 14:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

So whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything else, do it all to the honor of God.

The work

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.

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

All

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.

"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."

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

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.

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

General references

Do not take account of your own interests, but of the interests of others as well.