Romans 14:21
Good News Translation
The right thing to do is to keep from eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that will make other believers fall.

New Revised Standard Version
it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.

Contemporary English Version
It is best not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else that causes problems for other followers of the Lord.

New American Bible
it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

good.

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Romans 15:1,2 Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:13 Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

whereby.

Romans 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's way.

Malachi 2:8 But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 16:23 Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.

Matthew 18:7-10 Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. . . .

Luke 17:1,2 And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! . . .

Philippians 1:10 That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ:

Hebrews 12:13 And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

Revelation 2:14 But I have against thee a few things: 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 and to commit fornication.

Context
The Law of Love
20Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak. 22Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:21
Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized.

1 Corinthians 8:9
But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:13
Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

Romans 14:20
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