5One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
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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 that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? …
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. …
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.
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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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