3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
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But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: …
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? …
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.
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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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