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13 Therefore let us not judge one another1 anymore, but rather resolve this, anot to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.  

The Law of Love

14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus athat there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.  
15 Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. aDo not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.  
16 aTherefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;  
17 afor the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and bpeace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  
18 For he who serves Christ in1 these things ais acceptable to God and approved by men.  
19 aTherefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which bone may edify another.  
20 aDo not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. bAll things indeed are pure, cbut it is evil for the man who eats with1 offense.  
21 It is good neither to eat ameat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles1 or is offended or is made weak.  
22 1Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. aHappy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.  
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Romans 14:15

Because of meat (dia brwma). "Because of food."

In love (kata agaphn). "According to love" as the regulating principle of life. See 1Co. 8 where Paul pleads for love in place of knowledge on this point.

Destroy not (mh apollue). Present active imperative of apolluw, the very argument made in I Corinthians 8:10 f.

With thy meat (tw brwmati sou). Instrumental case, "with thy food." It is too great a price to pay for personal liberty as to food.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 14:15:

Romans 14:20
Romans 15:3

 

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