1Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. …
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)We have in this chapter, I. An account of the unhappy contention which had broken out in the Christian church. Our Master had foretold that offences would come; and, it seems, so they did, for want of that wisdom and love which would have prevented discord, and kept up union among them. 1. There was a difference among them about the distinction of meats and days; these are the two things specified…
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