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Romans 14:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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 14:20

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

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

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.

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

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

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1 Corinthians 8:8

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"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."

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Matthew 15:20

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"These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”"

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Hebrews 13:9

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"Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited."

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Leviticus 22:8

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"He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD."

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1 Corinthians 10:31

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

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Deuteronomy 12:15

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"Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer."

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Romans 14:1

"Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions."

Romans 14:2

"One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables."

Romans 14:3

"Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him."

Romans 14:4

"Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand."

Romans 14:5

"One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind."

Romans 14:6

"He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks."

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