In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.

that is, for the sake of the other person's conscience, not your own. For why should my freedom [to eat what I want] be judged [as wrong] by another person's conscience? [Note: The questions in this and the following verse may mean, "it is not worth eating questionable things, if doing so would bring criticism from a weak brother"].

can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine figs? no more can the sea yield water that is fresh.

But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.