“Let not then your good be evil spoken of:”
Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. — Agathos (good, your freedom) becomes blasphemeō (slandered, spoken against as evil) when wielded without love. The strong's correct knowledge becomes a social scandal if it causes the weak to stumble. Rhetoric about your rights becomes a lie when love is violated.
Church Fathers on Romans 14:16
“Let not then your good be evil spoken of. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink.” By their “good,” he means here either their faith, or the hope of rewards hereafter, or the perfectness of their religious state. For it is not only that you fail to profit your brother, he means, but the doctrine itself, and the grace of God, and His gift, you cause to be evil spoken of. Now when you fight, when you quarrel, when you are vexatious, when you make schism in the Church,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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