But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one on behalf of whom Christ died.

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone be hanged on his neck, and he be drowned in the depth of the sea.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both this [stomach] and these [foods]. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will by no means eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble.

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all things for the glory of God.

For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

having been persuaded of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus;

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him considering anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

And a voice [spoke] again the second [time] to him, "That which God has made clean, you must not make common."

forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled.

But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one on behalf of whom Christ died.

It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or becomes weak.

But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for the sake of whom Christ died?

Be without offense, both toward Jews and toward Greeks, and toward the church of God,

just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.