Roma 14:1

Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance

14:1 Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions. ¹ 

Roma 14:15

14:15 For if your brother or sister ²  is distressed because of what you eat, ³  you are no longer walking in love. ⁴  Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

Roma 14:19-21

14:19 So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another. 14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, ⁵  it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat. 14:21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble. ⁶ 

¹ tn Grk “over opinions.” The qualifier “differing” has been supplied to clarify the meaning.

² tn Grk “brother.”

³ tn Grk “on account of food.”

⁴ tn Grk “according to love.”

⁵ sn Here clean refers to food being ceremonially clean.

⁶ tc A large number of mss, some of them quite important (Ì^46vid א² B D F G Ψ 0209 33 1881 Ï lat sa), read “or to be offended or to be made weak” after “to stumble.” The shorter reading “to stumble” is found only in Alexandrian mss (א* A C 048 81 945 1506 1739 pc bo). Although external evidence favors inclusion, internal evidence points to a scribal expansion, perhaps reminiscent of 1 Cor 8:11-13. The shorter reading is therefore preferred.