<p>14:13- see on Mt. 13:22.</p><p><i>Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide</i><i>- </i>There is to be one thing we judge or decide- that we never cause another to stumble.</p><p><i>Never to put a stumbling block- </i>The &quot;stumblingblock&quot; was used earlier in Romans with regard to the Lord Jesus and His grace being a stone of stumbling for the Jews (9:32,33; 1 Pet. 2:8). He could be made a stumblingblock by Gentile believers insisting that Jewish believers disobey the Mosaic law by eating thinks like pork; if the Jews did so with a bad conscience, they might end up turning away from Him completely The word &quot;stumblingblock&quot; is used in exactly this context in :20,21 and 1 Cor. 8:9. So sensitivity is required in order to not make another stumble. It is not enough to insist that we are right from God's word, and therefore what we demand must be accepted by others. Their weakness of understanding and therefore of conscience must still be taken into account. Pure Biblicism has no place for this kind of thinking, and results in the utter belligerence and insensitivity which has led so many to stumble from the pathway to God's Kingdom.</p><p><i>Or hindrance in the way of a brother- </i>&quot;Hindrance&quot; is <i>skandalon</i> and strictly refers to the twig on a trap, which once triggered opens up the trap into which the animal falls. The Lord is crystal clear in His teaching that those who create such triggers for others shall be cast out at the last day (Mt. 13:41; 18:7; Lk. 17:1). Hence Paul urges that we must soberly decide / judge <i>never</i> to do this to another believer. This needs to be taken far more seriously by those who insist on rejecting others from their communities because of positions on divorce or fellowship. Paul concludes by soberly warning avoidance of those who cause such <i>skandalon</i> (16:17). Walking in the light, loving our brother, means that we have no reason of causing <i>skandalon</i> (1 Jn. 2:10). Love is not causing another to stumble.</p>