Bible Verses about โcausing your brother to stumbleโ
The Bible contains 32 verses about causing your brother to stumble across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ
โBe sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.โ
โBe careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.โ
โNow accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.โ
โSo then each one of us will give account of himself to God.โ
โIt is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.โ
โOne man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.โ
โDon't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.โ
โI know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.โ
โTherefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.โ
โWho are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.โ
โBut you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.โ
โFor it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"โ
โFor if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.โ
โfor the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.โ
โSo then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.โ
โOne man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.โ
โHe who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.โ
โYet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.โ
โBut he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.โ
โFor to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.โ
โDo you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.โ
โThen don't let your good be slandered,โ
โFor none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.โ
โDon't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.โ
โFor he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.โ
โFor you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.โ
โWhoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.โ
โTherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.โ
โBut be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.โ
