Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For—"For the sake of"
meat destroy not the work of God—(See on Romans 14:15). The apostle sees in whatever tends to violate a brother's conscience the incipient destruction of God's work (for every converted man is such)—on the same principle as "he that hateth his brother is a murderer" (I John 3:15).
All things indeed are pure—"clean"; the ritual distinctions being at an end.
but it is evil to that man—there is criminality in the man
who eateth with offence—that is, so as to stumble a weak brother.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 14:20:
Romans 14:23
Romans 14:23
Romans 15:1
1 Corinthians 8:7
1 Corinthians 10:26
Galatians 2:3
1 Timothy 4:4-5
Titus 1:15
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