Bible Cross References
For
Romans 14:15
If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!
Matthew 18:6
"If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea.
1 Corinthians 6:12
Someone will say, "I am allowed to do anything." Yes; but not everything is good for you. I could say that I am allowed to do anything, but I am not going to let anything make me its slave.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Someone else will say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body.
1 Corinthians 8:8
Food, however, will not improve our relation with God; we shall not lose anything if we do not eat, nor shall we gain anything if we do eat.
1 Corinthians 8:13
So then, if food makes a believer sin, I will never eat meat again, so as not to make a believer fall into sin.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Well, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for God's glory.
the work
Ephesians 2:10
God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.
Philippians 1:6
And so I am sure that God, who began this good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished on the Day of Christ Jesus.
All
Romans 14:14
My union with the Lord Jesus makes me certain that no food is of itself ritually unclean; but if you believe that some food is unclean, then it becomes unclean for you.
Matthew 15:11
It is not what goes into your mouth that makes you ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes you unclean."
Acts 10:15
The voice spoke to him again, "Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean."
1 Timothy 4:3-5
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Such people teach that it is wrong to marry and to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten, after a prayer of thanks, by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.
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Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,
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because the word of God and the prayer make it acceptable to God.
Titus 1:15
Everything is pure to those who are themselves pure; but nothing is pure to those who are defiled and unbelieving, for their minds and consciences have been defiled.
but
Romans 14:15
If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!
Romans 14:21
The right thing to do is to keep from eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that will make other believers fall.
1 Corinthians 8:9-12
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Be careful, however, not to let your freedom of action make those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.
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Suppose a person whose conscience is weak in this matter sees you, who have so-called "knowledge," eating in the temple of an idol; will not this encourage him to eat food offered to idols?
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And so this weak person, your brother for whom Christ died, will perish because of your "knowledge"!
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And in this way you will be sinning against Christ by sinning against other Christians and wounding their weak conscience.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Live in such a way as to cause no trouble either to Jews or Gentiles or to the church of God.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.