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Romans 14:21

WEB

21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

KJV

21It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

BSB

21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

FBV

21It's better not to eat meat or drink wine or anything else that would cause your fellow-believer to stumble.

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 8:13

13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.


Romans 14:13

13Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.


Romans 15:1-2

1[+] Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.


Matthew 16:23

23But he turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”


Malachi 2:8

8But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Armies.


Matthew 18:7-10

7Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! 8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. 9If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna[+] of fire. 10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.


Luke 17:1-2

1He said to the disciples, It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! 2It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.


Romans 14:17

17for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.


Hebrews 12:13

13and make straight paths for your feet,so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.


Philippians 1:10

10so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,