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Passages on this topic · 32

• Romans 14:14

  I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

• Romans 14:15

  Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

• Romans 14:16

  Then don’t let your good be slandered,

• Romans 14:17

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

• Romans 14:18

  For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

• Romans 14:19

  So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

• Romans 14:20

  Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

• Romans 14:21

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

• Romans 14:22

  Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

• 1 Corinthians 6:12

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

• 1 Corinthians 8:8

  But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

• 1 Corinthians 8:9

  But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 8:11

  And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 8:13

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

• 1 Corinthians 9:19

  For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

• 1 Corinthians 9:20

  To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

• 1 Corinthians 9:21

  to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

• 1 Corinthians 9:22

  To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

• 1 Corinthians 9:23

  Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

• 1 Corinthians 10:23

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

• 1 Corinthians 10:24

  Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

• 1 Corinthians 10:25

  Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

• 1 Corinthians 10:26

  for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:27

  But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

• 1 Corinthians 10:28

  But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:29

  Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

• 1 Corinthians 10:30

  If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

• 1 Corinthians 10:31

  Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

• 1 Corinthians 10:32

  Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

• 1 Corinthians 10:33

  even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.