Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Romans 14:15
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died.
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died.
Verse Romans 14:15. _IF THY BROTHER BE GRIEVED_] If he think that thou doest wrong, and he is in consequence stumbled at thy conduct. _NOW WALKEST THOU NOT CHARITABLY._] κατα αγαπην, _According to_...
BUT IF THY BROTHER ... - This address is to the “Gentile” convert. In the previous verse, Paul admitted. that the prejudice of the Jew was not well-founded. But admitting that still the question was,...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Strong and Weak Brethren are the Lord's Servants. (Romans 14:1 .)_ 2. The True Way of Love. (Romans 14:13 .) Romans 14:1 The question concerning brethren who were weak in faith, how...
CONSIDERATENESS INSTEAD OF CENSORIOUSNESS. Romans 14:13. Let us stop judging one another (_cf._ Matthew 7:1); but come rather to this judgment, not to lay a stumbling-block in a brother's way, etc. R...
RESPECT FOR SCRUPLES (Romans 14:1) _ 14:1 Welcome the man who is weak in the faith, but not with a view to passing judgment on his scruples._ In this chapter Paul is dealing with what may have been...
So, then, let us stop passing judgment on each other, and rather let this be our only judgment--the determination not to put any hindrance or stumbling block in our brother's way. I know this, and I a...
BUT. The texts read "For". IF. App-118. BE. is. THY. Omit. NOW... NOT. no longer. Greek. _ouketi._ App-105. CHARITABLY. according to (App-104) love (App-135.) DESTROY. Literally loose, or pull,...
_But_ Another reading is FOR. The documentary evidence is doubtful; and the evidence of connexion favours BUT. If FOR is adopted, it must be explained by treating Romans 14:14 as a parenthesis; and th...
F. 12–15:13. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL SEEN IN ITS EFFECT UPON BOTH THE COMMON AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF CHRISTIANS. In this section S. Paul deals with the consequences of the principles he has worked...
While Christian freedom is to be maintained, it must not be so maintained as to violate charity. S. Paul has developed in the strongest terms the Christian right, and consequently the wrong of judging...
ΓᾺΡ. Romans 14:14 is a parenthetic admission and qualification, γὰρ refers back to Romans 14:13. The whole passage is curiously elliptic and interjectional. ΔΙᾺ ΒΡΩ͂ΜΑ. Owing to meat—that meat which...
ΒΡΏΜΑ (G1033) пища, ΛΥΠΕΊ ΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΛΥΠΈΩ (G3076) быть причиной скорби, вредить. Имеется в виду горькое и болезненное чувство, рождающееся в сердце слабого (Godet). ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΊΣ _prae...
BUT IF THY BROTHER BE GRIEVED, &C.— _If then thy brother be offended with thy meat, thou walkest no longer charitably._ It hence appears, that grieving a person does not signify merely putting himout...
_TEXT_ Romans 14:13-23. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling. Romans 14:14 I know...
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. BUT IF THY BROTHER BE GRIEVED (HAS HIS WEAK CONSCIENCE HURT) WITH...
__ The Conduct of the Saints 1 Fellowship among God's saints should not be based on knowledge or ignorance. God receives us even when we are feeble in faith. We should not cut from our fellowship on...
THE DUTY OF SYMPATHY AND TOLERATION In chapter Romans 13:12 St. Paul urged his readers, by their expectation of Christ's coming, to avoid the licence and immorality of the heathen. Now he turns to th...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 CHRISTIAN FREEDOM 14:1-12 V1 Accept people whose *faith is weak. But do not argue with them about their opinions. V...
BUT. — The true reading is undoubtedly _For,_ the connection of which is somewhat difficult to trace. It appears to leap over Romans 14:14, and go back to Romans 14:13. We may suppose that the substan...
CHAPTER 29 CHRISTIAN DUTY: MUTUAL TENDERNESS AND TOLERANCE: THE SACREDNESS OF EXAMPLE Romans 14:1 BUT him who is weak-we might almost render, him who suffers from weakness, in his faith (in the sens...
The Apostle now proceeds to argue the question of Christian conduct in things indifferent from another point of view that of the influence which our conduct may have on others, and of the consideratio...
Many expositors here supply something; _e.g._, “You must have respect therefore for his scruples, although you may not share them, for if,” etc. (Sanday and Headlam); but it seems simpler to connect t...
YIELDING RIGHTS FOR OTHERS' SAKE Romans 14:13 We must be careful of one another's faith. Unkind criticism or ridicule, or the strong pressure of our arguments and reasons may impede the divine life i...
The apostle now turned to discussion of some of the difficulties which may arise in the Christian Church. Dealing with the question of the animals sacrificed to idols he laid down a supreme principle...
But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. (14) Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom (15) Christ died. (14) It is the part of a cruel mind to make more account...
St. Paul repeats this, in almost the same words, in 1 Corinthians chap. viii. and plainly gives us the understand, that Christ died for the salvation of all men, by supposing a Christian brother, for...
After having addressed the strong and the weak simultaneously, the apostle further addresses a warning to the former, to induce them not to use their liberty except in conformity with the law of love....
“ _I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself:except that to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, it is unclean. Now if thy brother be grieved because of food,...
If this verse be connected with the preceding by _for_, with the majority of the Mjj., it is very difficult to understand their logical relation. Meyer paraprhases thus: “It is not without reason that...
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. (10) But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at naught thy brother? for we...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
15._But if through meat thy brother is grieved, etc. _He now explains how the offending of our brethren may vitiate the use of good things. And the first thing is, — that love is violated, when our br...
From the beginning of Chapter 14 to the end of Verse 7 in Chapter 15 another point is taken up, to which the different positions of the Jew and Gentile gave rise. It was difficult for a Jew to rid him...
BUT IF THY BROTHER BE GRIEVED WITH THY MEAT,.... The apostle proceeds to give reasons why, though he was so fully persuaded that nothing was unclean of itself, and so he, and any other of the same per...
But if thy brother be grieved with _thy_ meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Ver. 15. _But if thy brother be grieved_] It is his weakness to be...
Rom. 14:15. "But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died." That is as much as to say, will [you not in] your meat p...
_I know_ By the light of reason; _and am persuaded_ Or assured; _by the Lord Jesus_ Probably by a particular revelation from him; _that there is nothing_ No kind of meat; _unclean of itself_ Or unlawf...
BE GRIEVED WITH THY MEAT; if your eating meat grieves and injures a brother. WALKEST THOU NOT CHARITABLY; provided you continue to eat it. Love to him requires you to abstain from it. DESTROY NOT HI...
PERSONAL CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD In Romans 12:1 we have seen instruction in many details of moral conduct. In such cases conscience has no liberty to take any stand but that of truth and honor. Just so...
Liberty and its proper use 13 Do not place a stumbling block or death trap for a brother This is not trivial matter Fall = from grace, lost eternally, damnation 14 See note on verse 5 Weak - does...
CHARITABLY: _ Gr._ according to charity 1 Corinthians 8:11...
FOR IF BECAUSE OF MEAT THY BROTHER IS GRIEVED, THOU WALKEST NO LONGER IN LOVE. DESTROY NOT WITH THY MEAT HIM FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED. Starting from verse 13 Paul is addressing the meat-eater. He was rig...
14-18 Christ deals gently with those who have true grace, though they are weak in it. Consider the design of Christ's death: also that drawing a soul to sin, threatens the destruction of that soul. D...
In this verse you have two reasons to induce the strong not to offend the weak: First, it is contrary to charity; to grieve a brother upon the score of meats, is to walk uncharitably; it is a violatio...
For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. ["For" looks back to verse 13. Recklessness as to the welfare or safety of others is not loving. "Grieved" may express ei...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III " And everywhere, when [referring to] the passion of our Lord, and to His human nature, and His subjection to death, he employs the name of Christ, as in that passag...
Romans 14:15 Yet G1161 if G1487 your G4675 brother G80 grieved G3076 (G5743) because G1223 food G1033 longer...
‘For if because of meat your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your meat him for whom Christ died.' Thus if the brother or sister who believed it to be wrong a...
CHRISTIAN FREEDOM TO BE TEMPERED BY CONSIDERATION FOR THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WITH REGARD TO FOOD FETISHES AND SABBATH OBSERVANCE (14:1-23). Paul now deals with the question of whether to observe a...
Romans 14:15. FOR. The best authorities give this reading, which introduces the reason for speaking of the exception (Romans 14:14), namely, to warn against the lack of love in disregarding it IF BEC...
2. _Proper Use of Christian Liberty on the Part of the Stronger Brethren._ The section opens with a caution against judging (Romans 14:13 a), which furnishes a transition to the leading thought, namel...
II. SPECIAL DISCUSSION RESPECTING THE SCRUPLES OF CERTAIN WEAK BRETHREN. This part of the Epistle was occasioned by the existence at Rome of a class of Christians who had scruples in regard to eating...
Because of meat (δια βρωμα). "Because of food."IN LOVE (κατα αγαπην). "According to love" as the regulating principle of life. See Romans 14:1 where Paul pleads for love in place of knowledge on thi...
CONTENTS: Law of love concerning doubtful things. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: To do what conscience allows is not always right and to do what it questions is always wrong....
Romans 14:1. _Him that is weak in the faith receive ye._ The apostolic churches were composed of jews and gentiles. Most of the jews were zealous of the law, and observed the legal distinctions of mea...
IF YOU HURT YOUR BROTHER. "Your freedom of action is not worth the price of hurting your brother in Christ. Love doesn't act this way!" RUIN is a strong word. Christian freedom must not be used in suc...
_Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block …, in his brother’s way._ LIMITATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY It is limited-- I. In its exten...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 14:15 For the sake of the weak, the strong should refrain from eating certain foods. They must be careful not to DESTROY the faith of a brother or sister. Lack of love for the we...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 14:10.—Being accountable to Christ, we cannot be accountable in the highest sense to any other. Romans 14:11.—The phrase indicates the act of those who shall worship and ackn...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 14:1 F. _The duty of enlightened Christians towards weak brethren. _From moral duties in general of Christians towards each other and towards all the apostle now passes to such as t...
In the fourteenth chapter Paul deals now with another issue. Him that is weak in the faith receive, but not to doubtful disputations (Romans 14:1). Don't get into arguments with them, doubtful dispu...
1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 13:5; 1 Corinthians 8:1;...
Be grieved [λ υ π ε ι τ α ι] The close connection with destroy indicates that the meaning falls short of be destroyed, but is stronger than made to feel pain. It is a hurt to conscience, which, while...
If thy brother is grieved — That is, wounded, led into sin. Destroy not him for whom Christ died — So we see, he for whom Christ died may be destroyed. With thy meat — Do not value thy meat more than...