Romans 14:10

Why dost thou judge? The first part of this verse is emphatically expressed in the Greek: “But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you also, why do you set at nought your brother?” The one judging his brother is the one who “eateth herbs,” and the one setting at nought is the one who conscientiously believes he “may eat all things” (v. 2).

We shall all stand. In the Greek the word for “all” is in the position of emphasis. All of us, both weak and strong, are to stand before the divine tribunal. Since all believers are alike subjects and servants of God, and must all stand before the same judgment seat, they have no right to sit in judgment on one another. Such judging usurps a prerogative of God (Rom. 14:10; cf. 2 Cor. 5:10).

Of Christ. Textual evidence favors (cf. p. 10) the reading “of God.” The reading “of Christ” may have come in from the parallel passage in 2 Cor. 5:10. God the Father will judge the world through Christ (see Rom. 2:16; cf. Acts 17:31).