Romans 14:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

Romans 14:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 8:13
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Romans 14:13
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Romans 15:1-2
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. …
Matthew 18:7-10
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! …
Matthew 16:23
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

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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. 21)

21. It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing--“nor to do any thing” whereby--“wherein” thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak--rather, “is weak.” These three words, it has been remarked, are each intentionally weaker than the other:--“Which may cause a brother to stumble, or even be obstructed in his Christian course, nay--though neither of these may follow--wh…