Romans 14:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

📖 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 are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?
• Jas 4:11 : 11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
• Matt 7:1 : 1 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.
• Rom 14:4 : 4 Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.
• Rom 14:10 : 10 But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
• Luke 17:2 : 2 It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.
• 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;
• Jas 2:4 : 4 Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
• Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;
• 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,
• 1 John 2:10 : 10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
• Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way; 33 As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
• Rom 11:9 : 9 And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
• Lev 19:14 : 14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.
• 2 Sam 12:14 : 14 But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
• Isa 57:14 : 14 And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.
• Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.
• 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble. 10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images? 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death. 12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ. 13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
• 1 Cor 11:13 : 13 Be judges yourselves of the question: does it seem right for a woman to take part in prayer unveiled?
• 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
• Matt 16:23 : 23 But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.
• Matt 18:7 : 7 A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.