📜WEB · Romans 14:15

What does Romans 14:15 mean?

"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 14:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

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Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

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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.

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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.

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Then don’t let your good be slandered,

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

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

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