Romans 14:13

American Standard Version (1901)

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηκέτι οὖν ἀλλήλους κρίνωμεν: ἀλλὰ τοῦτο κρίνατε μᾶλλον, τὸ μὴ τιθέναι πρόσκομμα τῷ ἀδελφῷ ἢ σκάνδαλον.

Transliteration

No longer oun allēlous krinōmen: but touto krinate mallon, the not tithenai proskomma to the adelphō or skandalon.

Grammar Details

• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural, reciprocal pronoun - one another
• *krinōmen*: present, active, subjunctive, 1st plural - we judge
• *touto*: accusative, neuter, singular - this
• *krinate*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd plural - judge/decide
• *mallon*: adverb - rather/instead
• *tithenai*: present, active, infinitive - to put/place
• *proskomma*: accusative, neuter, singular - stumbling block
• *adelphō*: dative, masculine, singular - brother
• *skandalon*: accusative, neuter, singular - trap/snare/offense

Word Meanings

• *krinōmen*: we judge/we condemn/we criticize
• *krinate*: judge/decide/determine
• *mallon*: rather/instead/more
• *tithenai*: to put/to place/to set
• *proskomma*: stumbling block/obstacle
• *adelphō*: brother/fellow believer
• *skandalon*: trap/snare/offense/occasion for stumbling

Referenced Verses

• Luke 12:57 : 57 And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
• Jas 4:11 : 11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• Matt 7:1 : 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
• Rom 14:4 : 4 Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.
• Rom 14:10 : 10 But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.
• Luke 17:2 : 2 It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
• 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
• Jas 2:4 : 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
• Phil 1:10 : 10 so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;
• 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:
• 1 John 2:10 : 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
• Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling; 33 even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
• Rom 11:9 : 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
• Lev 19:14 : 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
• 2 Sam 12:14 : 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
• Isa 57:14 : 14 And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
• Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
• 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. 10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
• 1 Cor 11:13 : 13 Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?
• 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
• Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.
• Matt 18:7 : 7 Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!