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Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don`t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
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Love Overrules Liberty
Commentators agree that this verse establishes a core Christian principle: your personal freedom is not the highest good. The 'strong' believer's right to eat certain foods is secondary to the law of love. Paul's point is that if exercising your liberty causes genuine spiritual distress or harm to a fellow Christian, you are no longer acting in love. Love requires you to willingly set aside your rights for the well-being of others.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But if your brother, etc. This address is to the Gentile convert. In the previous verse, Paul admitted that the prejudice of the Jew was n…
Because of meat (δια βρωμα). "Because of food."
In love (κατα αγαπην). "According to love" as the regulating principle of l…
19th Century
Anglican
But.—The true reading is undoubtedly For, and its connection is somewhat difficult to trace. It appears to leap over Roma…
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The opening statement gives the gist of what has been already said. Both parties have been guilty of passing judgment on one another. Then, by a ne…
16th Century
Protestant
But if through meat your brother is grieved, etc. He now explains how offending our brothers can corrupt the use of good things. And the f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if your brother be grieved with your meat The apostle proceeds to give reasons why, though he was so fully persu…
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Christ deals gently with those who have true grace, even though they are weak in it. Consider the design of Christ's death; also, that drawing a so…
13th Century
Catholic
After forbidding human judgments, the Apostle now forbids putting stumbling blocks before one’s neighbor.
He structures his argume…
