Cross references
Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
Romans 14:20 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 14:14–15 (11 votes) and Matthew 18:6 (10 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 9 to Titus 1.
Which verses does Romans 14:20 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Romans 14:14–1511 votes
I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.
- Matthew 18:610 votes
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
- Titus 1:159 votes
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Acts 10:158 votes
The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:31–337 votes
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God— …
- Romans 14:216 votes
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
- 1 Corinthians 6:12–136 votes
“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- Matthew 15:115 votes
A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
- 1 Timothy 4:3–55 votes
They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, …
- Ephesians 2:104 votes
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- 1 Corinthians 8:8–133 votes
But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. …
- Philippians 1:63 votes
Which verses point to Romans 14:20?
The 10 strongest of 22.