Parallel Verses
NET Bible
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
New American Standard Bible
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.
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.
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.
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.
Themes
Abstinence » Total abstinence » Strong Drink » Brotherly love demands
Conscience » Of others, not to be offended
Offence » Saints should » Use self-denial rather than occasion
Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Preferring the profit of others
Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Brotherly love demands
Topics
Interlinear
me
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μηδέ
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neither, nor, not, nor yet, not once, no not, not so much as
Usage: 31
E
ἤ
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Usage: 199
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 14:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Pass Judgment On One Another
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble. 22 The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.
Names
Cross References
1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
Malachi 2:8
You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi," says the Lord who rules over all.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but on man's."
Matthew 18:7-10
Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
Luke 17:1-2
Jesus said to his disciples, "Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
Romans 14:13
Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:1-2
But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
Philippians 1:10
so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,
Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.