Romans 14
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Rom 14:1   Now accept the one who is weak in faith, {but} not for {the purpose of} passing judgment on his opinions.
Rom 14:2   One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables {only.}
Rom 14:3   The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
Rom 14:4   Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Rom 14:5   One person regards one day above another, another regards every day {alike.} Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
Rom 14:6   He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
Rom 14:7   For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;
Rom 14:8   for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Rom 14:9   For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Rom 14:10   But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
Rom 14:11   For it is written, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD."
Rom 14:12   So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.
Rom 14:13   Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this--not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way.
Rom 14:14   I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Rom 14:15   For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
Rom 14:16   Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
Rom 14:17   for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Rom 14:18   For he who in this {way} serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Rom 14:19   So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
Rom 14:20   Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.
Rom 14:21   It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or {to do anything} by which your brother stumbles.
Rom 14:22   The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
Rom 14:23   But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because {his eating is} not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

 

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