If you want to judge, don’t cause your brethren to error
If you want to judge, don’t cause your brethren to error
Romans 14:4
4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God (the Lord) is able to make him stand (hold him up).
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock (cause to stumbling, that which causes to error) or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
1 Corinthians 10:23; 27-28
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient (advantageous): all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed (wish to go) to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
28 But if any man say unto you, this is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
Died or dead to the law
Romans 7:4
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Galatians 2:18-21
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19 For I through (passing through) the law am dead (died) to the law, that I might live unto (with motion towards) God.
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not (no longer) I, but Christ liveth in (resting within) me: and the life which (in what respect) I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate (reject) the grace of God: for if righteousness come by (through) the law, then Christ is dead (died) in vain.
Galatians 2:19
19 For I through (passing through) the law am dead (died) to the law, that I might live unto (with motion towards) God.
1 Corinthians 10:23; 27-28
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient (advantageous): all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed (wish to go) to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
28 But if any man say unto you, this is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?
30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
John 3:17-18
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
If you want to judge, don’t cause your brethren to error