Romans 14:20
Good News Translation
Do not, because of food, destroy what God has done. All foods may be eaten, but it is wrong to eat anything that will cause someone else to fall into sin.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for you to make others fall by what you eat;

Contemporary English Version
Don't let your appetite destroy what God has done. All foods are fit to eat, but it is wrong to cause problems for others by what you eat.

New American Bible
For the sake of food, do not destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to become a stumbling block by eating;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

For.

Romans 14:15 For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Matthew 18:6 But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

1 Corinthians 6:12,13 All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:8,13 But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.

the work.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.

All.

Romans 14:14 I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Matthew 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Acts 10:15 And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. . . .

Titus 1:15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

but.

Romans 14:15,21 For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:9-12 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:32,33 Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God: . . .

Context
The Law of Love
19Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another. 20Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.…
Cross References
Acts 10:15
And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

Romans 14:2
For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

Romans 14:14
I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14:15
For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8:9
But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:11
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died?

1 Corinthians 8:12
Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Titus 1:15
All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Romans 14:19
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