Romans 14:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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 {G2532} 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. {G3551} {G1063} 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 {G1519} a snare, and {G1519} a trap, And {G1519} a stumblingblock, and {G1519} 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 {G1519} things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through thy knowledge {G622} he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And thus, sinning {G3779} 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 {G3756} 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 {G1487} one died for all, therefore {G599} 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 comes!