Romans 14:16

Therefore be not your good thing blasphemed [or despised].

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

In Context

15And if thy brother be made sorry, [or heavy], in (his) conscience for meat, now thou walkest not after charity. Do not thou through thy meat lose him, for whom Christ died. (And if thy brother be grieved in his conscience over food, now thou walkest not with love. Do not because of thy food, or by thy eating, destroy him for whom the Messiah died.)

17For why the realm of God is not meat and drink, but rightwiseness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. (Because the Kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and joy in the Holy Spirit.)

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Cross References

Ruth 3:14Therefore she slept at his feet till to the going away of [the] night, and then she rose (up), before that men should know each other. And Boaz said to her, Be thou ware lest any man know, that thou camest hither.

1 Corinthians 10:29and I say not, thy conscience, but of another [man’s] (conscience). But whereto is my freedom [or my liberty] deemed of (or judged by) another man’s conscience?

1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain [ye] you (rselves) from all evil species, [or (all evil) likeness]. (Absent yourselves from anything that hath even the appearance of evil.)

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 →

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