Romans 14:15
For if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are not now walking according to love. Do not allow your food to destroy him for whom Christ died.
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16Therefore, what is good for us should not be a cause of blasphemy.
Cross References
Romans 13:10The love of neighbor does no harm. Therefore, love is the plenitude of the law.
Romans 15:2Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification.
1 Corinthians 8:11And should an infirm brother perish by your knowledge, even though Christ died for him?
1 Corinthians 13:4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.
Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
2 Peter 2:1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be among you lying teachers, who will introduce divisions of perdition, and they will deny him who bought them, the Lord, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Matthew Henry on Romans 14:2-23
Exhortations to Candour; The Dominion of Christ. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. 2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. 5… Read the whole commentary →