When you sit down to a meal, your primary concern should not be to feed your own face but to share the life of Jesus. So be sensitive and courteous to the others who are eating. Don’t eat or say or do things that might interfere with the free exchange of love.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It is a good thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.

NLTNew Living Translation

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else if it might cause another believer to stumble.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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