“But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.”
If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. — Lypeō (grieve, cause sorrow) the weak through elutheria (freedom) in eating violates agapē (love). The rhetorical weight: ei dia bromin (if through food) apollymi (destroy, ruin, lose) your adelphos (brother) for whom Christos apothnesko (Christ died). The weak person's salvation is at stake if stumbled. Love must constrain freedom.
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