Overthrow not (μη καταλυε). "Destroy not," "do not loosen down" (carrying on the metaphor in οικοδομη, building).

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For meat. By your obstinate, tenacious attachment to your own opinions about the distinctions of food and drink, do not act in such a way …

Destroy not.—A different word from that employed in Romans 14:15. It is the correlative and opposite of "edify," and mean…

The entire church is urged to pursue “peace” (harmony between the two groups; GK 1645), which alone can provide the atmosphere in which “mutual edi…

All things are indeed pure, etc. By saying that all things are pure, he makes a general declaration; and by adding that it is evil for a m…

For meat destroy not the work of God
The Syriac reads it, "the works of God"; referring either to righteousness, pea…

Many wish for peace and talk loudly for it, who do not follow the things that make for peace. Meekness, humility, self-denial, and love make for pe…

1. After forbidding human judgments, the Apostle now forbids putting stumbling blocks before one’s neighbor.

   He structures his argume…