Monday, November 23 It is best not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything over which your brother stumbles.​—Rom. 14:21.

[Áine]

Monday, November 23

It is best not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything over which your brother stumbles.—Rom. 14:21.

 

Would you be willing to forgo things that are within your right if you could thus avoid stumbling a brother whose conscience differs from yours? No doubt you would. Before they came to a knowledge of the truth, some of our brothers abused alcohol, but now they are determined to abstain from it. Surely, none of us would want to contribute to a brother’s falling back into a course that would cause him great harm! (1 Cor. 6:9, 10) Therefore, it would be unloving for a host to pressure a brother to drink alcohol if he has declined to do so. While likely in his late teens or early 20’s, the young man Timothy submitted to painful circumcision in order to avoid stumbling Jews to whom he was going to preach. His attitude was similar to that of the apostle Paul. (Acts 16:3; 1 Cor. 9:19-23) Like Timothy, are you willing to make personal sacrifices for the good of others? w18.06 18-19 ¶12-13

[Alexa]

We are advised to drink moderately. There are also brothers who didnt drink at all. We adhere consciences of others and Jehovah's will most importantly. We make personal sacrifices for the good of others.