Romans 14:21 “It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause…”

Romans 14:21

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

It is good neither to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weake.

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.

Young's 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.

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.

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Cross references

“good”

1 Corinthians 8:13 Romans 14:17 Romans 15:1 Romans 15:2

1 Corinthians 8:13 · BSB

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

Romans 14:17 · BSB

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:1 · BSB

We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:2 · BSB

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

“whereby”

Romans 14:13 Malachi 2:8 Matthew 16:23 Matthew 18:7–10 Philippians 1:10 Hebrews 12:13

Romans 14:13 · BSB

Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.

Malachi 2:8 · BSB

But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 16:23 · BSB

But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

Matthew 18:7–10 · BSB

Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Philippians 1:10 · BSB

so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Hebrews 12:13 · BSB

Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

22Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

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