Graphic Bible · Scene 5 of 5

Believers build a safe communal bridge while one traveler voluntarily stores disputed food and drink before accompanying a hesitant neighbor.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Romans 14:19-23

Pursue What Builds Up

Welcome, Conscience, and the Work of Peace · Romans 14

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. Peace and mutual upbuilding matter more than winning a food dispute. Believers must not tear down God’s work by exercising freedom in a way that causes another to stumble; conviction belongs before God, and action must proceed from faith rather than doubt.

Open this scene in the reader →

19So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and what builds up one another.

20Do not, for the sake of food, tear down the work of God. All things are indeed clean, but it is evil for the person who eats in a way that causes stumbling.

21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

22The faith that you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

23But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

Step through the story beside the Scripture itself. About the People’s Open Bible