Wounding their conscience (τυπτοντες αυτων την συνειδησιν). Old verb τυπτω, to smite with fist, staff, whip. The conscience is sen…

But when you sin so against the brothers. This is designed further to show the evil of causing others to sin, and thus the evil which migh…

When ye sin so.—When you sin in this way—and he explains further what the sin is: “Striking a blow upon their weak consci…

Though Christians have the authority to act as Paul has just described, they must “be careful” (GK 1063) lest through the exercise of this authorit…

When ye sin so against the brethren, etc. For if the soul of everyone who is weak is the price of Christ’s blood, that man who, for the sa…

But when you sin so against the brethren
Through sitting at meat in an idol's temple, and thereby violating the new commandmen…

Eating one kind of food and abstaining from another have nothing in them to recommend a person to God. But the apostle cautions against putting a s…