Romans 14:13

Paul calls believers to stop judging one another and instead resolve never to put a stumbling block in a brother's path. Love redirects our scrutiny from others' choices to our own effect on them.

Cross-references · 25

• 2 Cor 6:3We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
• 1 Cor 8:9–13Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
• Jas 4:11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
• Luke 17:2It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
• Rom 14:10Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
• Jas 2:4have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
• Rom 16:17Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
• Isa 57:14And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
• Luke 12:57And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
• Matt 7:1“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
• Rev 2:14But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
• 1 Cor 10:32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
• Matt 16:23But 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.”
• Rom 14:4Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
• Matt 18:7Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
• 2 Cor 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
• 1 Cor 11:13Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
• Rom 11:9And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
• Phil 1:10so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
• 1 Tim 5:14So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
• 1 Jn 2:10Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
• Rom 9:32–33Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
• 2 Sam 12:14Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
• Lev 19:14You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
• Ezek 14:3“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way?

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