Romans 14:15
If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16Therefore do not let what is right, so far as you are concerned, be evil spoken of.
Cross References
Romans 13:10Love never wrongs his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law.
Romans 15:2Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.
1 Corinthians 8:11So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,
Ephesians 5:2and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."
2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.
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 →