Thematic Bible: Of others, not to be offended

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

Verse Concepts

AbstinenceAbstinence as a disciplineAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromAppearance Of EvilSelf DenialThe Saints, Without OffenceBrotherly LoveAbstaining From Meats

Causing Others To StumbleDrinking WineNot Drinking WineDo Not HinderWeaknessEating Meatporkalcoholism

But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice;" abstain from eating it--out of respect for him who warned you, and, as before, for conscience' sake. But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground," you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own? If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?" read more.
Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God. Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.