Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble, upset, or weak.

New American Standard Bible

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

A Conservative Version

It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor in whatever thy brother stumbles against, or is caused to stumble, or becomes weak.

American Standard Version

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

Amplified

It is good [to do the right thing and] not eat meat or drink wine, or do anything that offends your brother and weakens him spiritually.

An Understandable Version

[So], it is better [for you] not to eat bread, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything [else] that could cause your brother to fall [away from God].

Anderson New Testament

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.

Bible in Basic English

It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

Common New Testament

It is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

Daniel Mace New Testament

it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.

Darby Translation

It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

Godbey New Testament

it is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles.

Goodspeed New Testament

The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience.

John Wesley New Testament

It is good, not to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weak.

Julia Smith Translation

Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

King James 2000

It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[It is] good not to eat meat or to drink wine or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

Modern King James verseion

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

It is good neither to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, neither anything, whereby thy brother stumbleth, either falleth, or is made weak.

Moffatt New Testament

the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

Montgomery New Testament

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

NET Bible

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

New Heart English Bible

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Noyes New Testament

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is put in danger of falling, or is made weak.

Sawyer New Testament

it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any thing by which your brother stumbles.

The Emphasized Bible

Well, is it not to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor to do aught whereby thy brother is caused to stumble.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

It is laudable not to eat flesh, or to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother is stumbled, or scandalized, or weakened.

Twentieth Century New Testament

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

Webster

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

Weymouth New Testament

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

Williams New Testament

The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.

World English Bible

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Worrell New Testament

It is good, neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby your brother stumbles.

Worsley New Testament

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing at which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or weakened.

Youngs Literal Translation

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
It is good
καλός 
Kalos 
Usage: 62

μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

to eat
φάγω 
Phago 
Usage: 54

κρέας 
Kreas 
Usage: 2

nor
μηδέ 
mede 
μηδέ 
mede 
neither, nor, not, nor yet, not once, no not, not so much as
neither, nor, not, nor yet, not once, no not, not so much as
Usage: 31
Usage: 31

to drink
πίνω πίω πόω 
Pino 
drink, drink of
Usage: 31

οἶνος 
Oinos 
Usage: 21

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

thy
σοῦ 
Sou 
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
Usage: 241

G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

προσκόπτω 
Proskopto 
Usage: 5

or
ἤ 

ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199
Usage: 199

σκανδαλίζω 
Skandalizo 
Usage: 10

References

American

Fausets

Context Readings

Do Not Pass Judgment On One Another

20 Do not destroy God's action for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make another person stumble because of what you eat. 21 The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble, upset, or weak. 22 As for the faith you do have, have it as your own conviction before God. How blessed is the person who has no reason to condemn himself because of what he approves!

Cross References

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if food that I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from stumbling.

Malachi 2:8

"But you priests turned aside from the way, and by your teaching you caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Matthew 16:23

But Jesus turned and told Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an offense to me, because you are not thinking God's thoughts but human thoughts!"

Matthew 18:7-10

How terrible it will be for the world due to its temptations to sin! Temptations to sin are bound to happen, but how terrible it will be for that person who causes someone to sin!

Luke 17:1-2

Jesus told his disciples, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!

Romans 14:13

Therefore, let's no longer criticize each other. Instead, make up your mind not to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Romans 14:17

For God's kingdom does not consist of food and drink, but of righteousness, peace, and joy produced by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:1-2

Now we who are strong ought to be patient with the weaknesses of those who are not strong and must stop pleasing ourselves.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may be able to choose what is best and be pure and blameless until the day when the Messiah returns,

Hebrews 12:13

and straighten the paths of your life, so that your lameness may not become worse, but instead may be healed.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: You have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, the one who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality.

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