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

General references

Philippians 2:4

Bible References

For

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

But whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe in me, better for him to have a great mill-stone hung round his neck and be sunk in the deep sea.

'All things are lawful for me'? Yes, but not all are good for me. 'All things are lawful for me'? Yes, but I am not going to let anything master me.

Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.

The work

God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

All

I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean.

it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

General references

and each with an eye to the interests of others as well as to his own.