Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not destroy the person for whom the Messiah died by what you eat.

New American Standard Bible

For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

King James Version

But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Holman Bible

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

A Conservative Version

For if thy brother is distressed because of food, thou no longer walk according to love. Do not destroy with thy food that man for whom Christ died.

American Standard Version

For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

Amplified

If your brother is being hurt or offended because of food [that you insist on eating], you are no longer walking in love [toward him]. Do not let what you eat destroy and spiritually harm one for whom Christ died.

An Understandable Version

For if your brother is hurt [spiritually] by [your eating a certain] food, you are no longer acting lovingly [toward him]. Do not destroy [spiritually] the person Christ died for by what you eat.

Anderson New Testament

But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not, with your food, destroy him, for whom Christ died.

Bible in Basic English

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

Common New Testament

If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not by your eating destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Daniel Mace New Testament

now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died?

Darby Translation

For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.

Godbey New Testament

But if your brother is grieved on account of your meat, you are no longer walking in divine love. Do not by your meat destroy him for whom Christ died.

Goodspeed New Testament

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

John Wesley New Testament

But if thy brother is grieved by thy meat, thou no longer walkest charitably. Destroy not him by thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Julia Smith Translation

And if by food thy brother is grieved, thou no more walkest by love. Not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.

King James 2000

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not him with your food, for whom Christ died.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

Modern King James verseion

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Moffatt New Testament

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

Montgomery New Testament

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

NET Bible

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

New Heart English Bible

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Noyes New Testament

For if on account of food thy brother is made to mourn, thou art no longer walking according to love. Do not with thy food destroy him for whom Christ died.

Sawyer New Testament

For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

The Emphasized Bible

If, in fact, because of food, thy brother is being grieved, no longer, by the rule of love, art thou walking: - do not, by thy food, that man, be destroying, on whose behalf Christ died!

Thomas Haweis New Testament

But if by meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no more according to love. Do not by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died.

Twentieth Century New Testament

If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

Webster

But if thy brother is grieved with thy food, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy food, for whom Christ died.

Weymouth New Testament

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

Williams New Testament

For if your brother is hurt because of the food you eat, you are not living by the standard of love. Stop ruining, by what you eat, the man for whom Christ died.

World English Bible

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Worrell New Testament

For, if because of your food your brother is aggrieved, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

Worsley New Testament

But if thy brother be grieved by thy food, thou dost not herein walk in love. Do not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.

Youngs Literal Translation

and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

thy
σοῦ 
Sou 
σοῦ 
Sou 
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
Usage: 241
Usage: 241

G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

be grieved
λυπέω 
Lupeo 
Usage: 24

with
διά 
Dia 
βρῶμα 
Broma 
Usage: 527
Usage: 15

βρῶμα 
Broma 
Usage: 15

now
οὐκέτι 
Ouketi 
no more, any more, now not,
Usage: 31

walkest thou
περιπατέω 
Peripateo 
walk, go, walk about, be occupied
Usage: 77

not
οὐκέτι 
Ouketi 
μή 
me 
no more, any more, now not,
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 31
Usage: 493

G26
ἀγάπη 
Agape 
Usage: 105

ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
Usage: 37

him
ἐκεῖνος 
Ekeinos 
that, those, he, the same, they,
Usage: 148

βρῶμα 
Broma 
Usage: 15

for
ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Do Not Pass Judgment On One Another

14 I know and have been persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in and of itself, but it is unclean to a person who thinks it is unclean. 15 For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not destroy the person for whom the Messiah died by what you eat. 16 Do not allow what seems good to you to be spoken of as evil.



Cross References

Ephesians 5:2

Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.

Ezekiel 13:22

"""Because you've dismayed the heart of the righteous whom I never intended to dismay with lies, and because you've encouraged the wicked so that he wouldn't abandon his evil behavior and by doing so live,

Romans 13:10

Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

Romans 14:20

Do not destroy God's action for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make another person stumble because of what you eat.

Romans 15:2

Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building him up.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:11-12

In that case, the weak brother for whom the Messiah died is ruined by your knowledge.

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.

Philippians 2:2-4

then fill me with joy by having the same attitude, sharing the same love, being united in spirit, and keeping one purpose in mind.

1 John 2:2

It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.

2 Peter 2:1

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there also will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

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