Romans 14:21

14:21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble. ¹ 

Romans 6:13

6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments ²  to be used for unrighteousness, ³  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ⁴  to be used for righteousness.

Romans 9:11

9:11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election ⁵  would stand, not by works but by ⁶  his calling) ⁷  –

[14:21]  ¹ tc A large number of mss, some of them quite important (Ì^46vid א² B D F G Ψ 0209 33 1881 Ï lat sa), read “or to be offended or to be made weak” after “to stumble.” The shorter reading “to stumble” is found only in Alexandrian mss (א* A C 048 81 945 1506 1739 pc bo). Although external evidence favors inclusion, internal evidence points to a scribal expansion, perhaps reminiscent of 1 Cor 8:11-13. The shorter reading is therefore preferred.

[6:13]  ² tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[6:13]  ³ tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

[6:13]  ⁴ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[9:11]  ³ tn Grk “God’s purpose according to election.”

[9:11]  ⁴ tn Or “not based on works but based on…”

[9:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “by the one who calls.”