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Rom 14:10-13
10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand
before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written: "As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to
God."
12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a
cause to fall in our brother's way.
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2. Mal 2:7-8 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth:
for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused
many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
FORBEARING
(for-bar') (chadhal; anechomai): In the Old Testament chadhal, "to leave off," is the word most frequently
translated "forbear" (Ex 23:5, etc.); damam, "to be silent," chasakh, "to keep back," mashakh, "to draw or
stretch out," occur once each; the Revised Version (British and American) renders Ezek 24:17 (damam), "Sigh,
but not aloud," margin "Hebrew be silent,"; Prov 24:11 (chasakh), "See that thou hold back," margin "or forbear
thou not to deliver," the King James Version "if thou forbear to deliver"; Neh 9:30 (mashakh), "bear" instead of
"forbear"; 'aph literally, "breathing," the "nose," hence, from violent breathing, "anger" ('erekh, "long,"
understood), and kul "to hold," are translated "forbearing" (Prov 25:15; Jer 20:9, respectively).
In the New Testament we have anechomai, "to hold self back or up," "with longsuffering, forbearing one
another" (Eph 4:2; Col 3:13); aniemi "to send back," the King James Version and the Revised Version (British
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and American) "forbear threatening' (Eph 6:9); pheidomai, "to spare," "but I forbear" (2 Cor 12:6);
meergazesthai, "not to work," "to forbear working" (1 Cor 9:6); stego, "to cover," "conceal": "when I could no
longer forbear" (1 Thess 3:1,5). (from International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Electronic Database
Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
FORBEARANCE
Tolerance or mercy. Although man's sin deserves punishment, God in His forbearance, or longsuffering
patience, gives an opportunity for REPENTANCE (Rom 2:4). Also see LONGSUFFERING.
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright © 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
FORBEARANCE (Grk. anoche, a "holding back, delaying," Rom 2:4; 3:25). "The forbearance of God and his
long suffering-the two terms exhausting the one idea-denote the disposition of God, in accordance with which
he indulgently tolerates sins and delays their punishment" (Meyer, Com., ad loc.). Philippians Phil 4:5 mentions
a "forbearing spirit" (Grk. epieikes), elsewhere rendered "gentle." (from The New Unger's Bible
Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright © 1988.)
LONGSUFFERING
The word in the New Testament rendered "longsuffering," makrothumia (once makrothumeo, "to be
longsuffering"), which is the rendering of 'erekh 'appayim in the Septuagint, is literally, "long of mind or soul"
(regarded as the seat of the emotions), opposed to shortness of mind or soul, irascibility, impatience,
intolerance. It is attributed to God (Rom 2:4; 9:22; 2 Peter 3:9), of His bearing long with sinners and slowness
to execute judgment on them. It is, therefore, one of "the fruits of the Spirit" in man (Gal 5:22) which Christians
are frequently exhorted to cherish and show one toward the other (Eph 4:2; Col 1:11; 3:12, etc.); it belongs,
Paul says, to the love, without which all else is nothing: "Love suffereth long (makrothumei), and is kind" (1
Cor 13:4); The verb makrothumeo is sometimes translated by "patience" (Matt 18:26,29, "Have patience with
me"). Luke 18:7 has been variously rendered; the King James Version has "And shall not God avenge his own
elect .... though he bear long with them"; the Revised Version (British and American) "and yet he is
longsuffering over them," the American Revised Version margin "and is he slow to punish on their behalf?"
Weymouth (New Testament in Modern Speech) has "although he seems slow in taking action on their behalf,"
which most probably gives the sense of the passage; in James 5:7-8 the verb occurs thrice, the King James
Version "be patient," "hath long patience"; the Revised Version (British and American) also translates by
"patient"; this, however, as in Matt 18:26,29, seems to lose the full force of the Greek word.
According to Trench (Synonyms of the New Testament, 189), the difference between hupomone ("patience")
and makrothumia is that the latter word expresses patience in respect to persons, and the former in respect to
things; hence, hupomone is never ascribed to God; where He is called "the God of patience," it is as He gives it
to His servants and saints. But in James 5:7 it is used with reference to things, and in Col 1:11 it is associated
with patience (compare Heb 6:12,15), suggesting patient endurance of trials and sufferings. In Col 1:11 it is also
associated with "joy," indicating that it is not a mere submissiveness, but a joyful acceptance of the will of God,
whatever it may be. In Wisd 15:1; Ecclus 5:4, we have "longsuffering" (makrothumos) ascribed to God; also in
Ecclus 2:11, the Revised Version (British and American) "mercy." (from International Standard Bible
Encyclopaedia, Electronic Database Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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III. TO AVOID STUMBLING, LET US RESOLVE TO EDIFY ONE ANOTHER.
A. It creates peace.
1. Rom 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one
may edify another.
B. It comforts.
1. 1 Thess 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
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B. We can hurt others by trying to please men.
1. Gal 2:11-16
11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he
withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before
them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou
the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have
believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by
the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
2. 1 Cor 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Invitation: Hear, Believe, Repent, Confess Christ as the Son of God, Be Immersed for the remission of
sins, and then grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, remaining faithful until death.
If you are a Christian and have sinned publicly, then you are invited to remove your
separation from God by public repentance so that prayers can be offered for you.