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

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

"But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

The work

for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

All

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean; but any food is "unclean" for one who considers it "unclean."

"Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man."

And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.

General references

Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.