Romans 14:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Romans 14:20 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 14:14-15
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. …
Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Titus 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Acts 10:15
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
1 Corinthians 10:31-33
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-23)

We have in this chapter, I. An account of the unhappy contention which had broken out in the Christian church. Our Master had foretold that offences would come; and, it seems, so they did, for want of that wisdom and love which would have prevented discord, and kept up union among them. 1. There was a difference among them about the distinction of meats and days; these are the two things specified…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. For--“For the sake of” meat destroy not the work of God--(See on Ro 14:15). The apostle sees in whatever tends to violate a brother’s conscience the incipient destruction of God’s work (for every converted man is such)--on the same principle as “he that hateth his brother is a murderer” (1Jo 3:15). All things indeed are pure--“clean”; the ritual distinctions being at an end. but it is evil to…