Romans 14:16

Let not then your good and lawful liberty be evil spoken of — By being offensive to others.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let not then your good ... - That which you esteem to be right, and which may be right in itself. You are not bound by the ceremonial law. You ar...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(16) Let not then your good be evil spoken of: (16) Another argument: because by this means evil is spoken of the liberty of the gospel, as though i...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Considerateness instead of Censoriousness. Romans 14:13 . Let us stop judging one another ( cf. Matthew 7:1-5 ); but come rather to this judgme...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

evil spoken of . blasphemed. See Romans 2:24 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let not then your good be evil spoken of: Let not then your good be evil spoken of - Do not make such a use of your Christian liberty as to subject t...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let not then your good be evil spoken of— "Let not your liberty, which is a good that you enjoy under the Gospel, be evil spoken of." See 1 Corint...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let not then your good be evil spoken of: Let not then your good - i:e., this liberty of yours as to Jewish meats and days, well founded thou...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Duty of Sympathy and Toleration In chapter Romans 13:12 St. Paul urged his readers, by their expectation of Christ's coming, to avoid the li...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Your good. — That blessing of Christian liberty which you enjoy. This is not to be used so as to give rise to reproaches and recriminations which w...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 29 CHRISTIAN DUTY: MUTUAL TENDERNESS AND TOLERANCE: THE SACREDNESS OF EXAMPLE Romans 14:1-23 BUT him who is weak-we might almost rende...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The apostle now turned to discussion of some of the difficulties which may arise in the Christian Church. Dealing with the question of the animals sa...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. (10) But why dost thou judge thy brother?...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let not then your good be evil spoken of. The Vulgate Latin reads it, "our good", and so the Syriac version; the sense is the same, and to be under...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let not then your good be evil spoken of: Ver. 16. Let not then your good ] That is, your Christian liberty purchased by Christ. Be evil spok...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I know By the light of reason; and am persuaded Or assured; by the Lord Jesus Probably by a particular revelation from him; that there is noth...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Personal Conscience Toward God In Romans 12:1-21 we have seen instruction in many details of moral conduct. In such cases conscience has no libe...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exhortations to Candour; The Dominion of Christ. A. D. 58....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Here is another argument against offences; it will cause our good to be blasphemed, or evil spoken of. Some, by good here, would understand the...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Christian Freedom To Be Tempered By Consideration For Their Brothers And Sisters With Regard To Food Fetishes And Sabbath Observance (14:1-23). Pa...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Do not then let your good be evil spoken of,' Thus we are not to let our good (our knowledge that nothing in itself is unclean) become something th...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 14:16 . Let not your good be evil spoken of .—Let not Christian liberty be abused by offence given to the weak. Romans 1...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 14:1 . Him that is weak in the faith receive ye. The apostolic churches were composed of jews and gentiles. Most of the jews were zealous o...
The Biblical Illustrator

Let not then your good be evil spoken off We ought not, for we have none too much. We may through-- 1. Ignorance. 2. Levity of temper....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 14:1-45 F. The duty of enlightened Christians towards weak brethren. From moral duties in general of Christians towards...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the abuse of Christian liberty:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of;
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:29 ; 1 Corinthians 10:30 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ; 2 Corinthians 8:20 ; 2 Corinthians 8:21 ; Romans 12:17

¹⁶ Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

Related Commentaries of Romans 14:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 14:16