Genesis 1:31
Romans 14:14
14, 15. I know, and am persuaded by—or rather, "in"
the Lord Jesus—as "having the mind of Christ" (1Co 2:16). that there is nothing unclean of itself—Hence it is that he calls those "the strong" who believed in the abolition of all ritual distinctions under the Gospel. (See Ac 10:15). but—"save that" to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean—"and therefore, though you can eat of it with out sin, he cannot."Romans 14:20
20. For—"For the sake of"
meat destroy not the work of God—(See on Ro 14:15). The apostle sees in whatever tends to violate a brother's conscience the incipient destruction of God's work (for every converted man is such)—on the same principle as "he that hateth his brother is a murderer" (1Jo 3:15). All things indeed are pure—"clean"; the ritual distinctions being at an end. but it is evil to that man—there is criminality in the man who eateth with offence—that is, so as to stumble a weak brother.
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