Romans 14:13-15

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Don’t Let Your Good Choices Cause Spiritual Harm To Others; Walk In Love

¹³Therefore let us no longer be judging one another. But rather judge^[a] this: not to be placing an opportunity-for-stumbling^[b] or a cause-of-falling^[c] for the brother (¹⁴I know^[d] and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing^[e] is defiled^[f] in itself ^[g], except to the one considering anything to be defiled— to that^[h] one it is defiled). ¹⁵For if your brother is grieved^[i] because of food, you are no longer walking according-to love. Do not be destroying with^[j] your food that one for whom Christ died.

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Footnotes

Romans 14:13 That is, determine, decide, resolve.
Romans 14:13 Or, an occasion to take offense or stumble into sin.
Romans 14:13 The former case causes an unintended stumble; the cause of falling is a consciously chosen thing. The person deliberately proceeds with behavior known to be objectionable to the weak, perhaps even in defiance of them.
Romans 14:14 As to knowledge, the strong are correct. But there is another way to view the matter besides ‘in itself’.
Romans 14:14 That is, nothing in the category of things being discussed here.
Romans 14:14 Or, unclean, impure.
Romans 14:14 That is, by means of being what it is. Even in the OT, pig was not unclean because it was pig. All God’s creation is good. It was defined as unclean to Israel by God’s Law.
Romans 14:14 Regardless of what it is in itself or to God, it is defiled to the conscience of the one thinking it such.
Romans 14:15 Or, distressed, caused pain, caused sorrow.
Romans 14:15 Or, for.

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