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 6:3Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
• 1 Cor 8:9–13But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
• Jas 4:11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• Luke 17:2It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
• Rom 14:10But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
• Jas 2:4Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
• Rom 16:17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
• Isa 57:14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
• Luke 12:57Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
• Matt 7:1Judge not, that ye be not judged.
• Rev 2:14But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
• 1 Cor 10:32Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
• Matt 16:23But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
• Rom 14:4Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
• Matt 18:7Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
• 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• 1 Cor 11:13Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
• Rom 11:9And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
• Phil 1:10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
• 1 Tim 5:14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
• 1 Jn 2:10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
• Rom 9:32–33Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
• 2 Sam 12:14Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
• Lev 19:14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
• Ezek 14:3Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

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