21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.


In Context

18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

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 eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.

22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

23 But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

Romans 14:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:21[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:21It is good not to eat flesh, and not to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended, or scandalized, or made weak.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:21It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:21It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:21It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.