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.
Cross References
Romans 14:20Do 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.
1 Corinthians 8:11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
Treasury of Scripture
But if your brother be grieved with your meat, now walk you not charitably. Destroy not him with your meat, for whom Christ died.
thy brother.
Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
1 Corinthians 8:12
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
now.
Romans 13:10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 15:2
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
charitable.
1 Corinthians 8:11
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
1 John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
