Romans 14:15 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 14:15

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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, “how” he should be treated while he had that prejudice. The apostle here shows the Gentile that “he” ought not so to act as unnecessarily to wound his feelings, or to grieve him. Be grieved - Be pained; as a conscientious man always is, when he sees another, and especially a Christian brother, do anything which “he” esteems to be wrong.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

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 Christ valued his life.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Charity to the souls of our brethren is the best charity. True love would make us tender of their peace and purity, and beget a regard to their consciences as well as to our own. Christ deals gently with those that have true grace, though they are weak in it. [2.] Consider the design of Christ's death: Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Accordingly, in the next clause, that idea is brought out with great strength. Destroy not him with--"by" thy meat for whom Christ died--"The worth of even the poorest and weakest brother cannot be more emphatically expressed than by the words, 'for whom Christ died'" [OLSHAUSEN]. The same sentiment is expressed with equal sharpness in 1Co 8:11.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
διὰ	dia	on account of	G1223 →
βρῶμα	brōma	food	G1033 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἀδελφός	adelphos	brother	G80 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
λυπεῖται,	lupeitai	is grieved,	G3076 →
οὐκέτι	ouketi	no longer	G3756 →G2089 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
ἀγάπην	agapēn	love	G26 →
περιπατεῖς.	peripateis	are you walking.	G4043 →
μὴ	mē	Not	G3361 →
τῷ	tō	with the	G3588 →
βρώματί	brōmati	food	G1033 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
ἐκεῖνον	ekeinon	that one	G1565 →
ἀπόλλυε	apollue	do destroy	G622 →
ὑπὲρ	huper	for	G5228 →
οὗ	hou	whom	G3739 →
Χριστὸς	Christos	Christ	G5547 →
ἀπέθανεν.	apethanen	died.	G599 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:16
  Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
- 1 Corinthians 9:19
  Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
- 1 Corinthians 8:9
  Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
- Romans 15:1–2
  We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
- Galatians 5:14
  The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Through
Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
leads to
- Romans 14:14–15
  I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- Matthew 18:6
  But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned…
- Titus 1:15
  To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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02Original language & word study

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04Related verses

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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