Romans 14:13
11 It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”
12 So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
14 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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
- KJV
- Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
- WEB
- Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
- ASV
- Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother`s way, or an occasion of falling.
- DARBY
- Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.
- BLB
- May we no longer, therefore, judge one another; but rather you⁺ decide this, not to put a stumbling block or obstacle before a brother.
- ÅB
- Derfor, la oss ikke lenger dømme hverandre. Men fell heller den dom at dere ikke skal legge anstøt eller felle for deres bror.
- OTB
- La oss derfor slutte å dømme hverandre. Bestem heller å ikke legge noen snublestein eller hindring i veien for en bror eller søster.
- B1930
- Derfor, la oss ikke mere dømme hverandre, men fell heller den dom at I ikke skal legge anstøt eller felle for eders bror!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 6:3
We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
Read in context1 Corinthians 8:9–13
Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
Read in contextJames 4:11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
Read in contextLuke 17:2
It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
Read in contextRomans 16:17
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
Read in contextRomans 14:10
Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
Read in contextJames 2:4
have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Read in contextLuke 12:57
And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
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