Romans 14

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¹Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. ✦ ²For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. ✦ ³Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. ✦ ⁴Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. ✦ ⁵One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. ✦ ⁶He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. ✦ ⁷For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. ✦ ⁸For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. ✦ ⁹For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. ✦ ¹⁰But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. ✦ ¹¹For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. ✦ ¹²So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. ✦ ¹³Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way. ✦ ¹⁴I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. ✦ ¹⁵But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. ✦ ¹⁶Let not then your good be evil spoken of: ✦ ¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. ✦ ¹⁸For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. ✦ ¹⁹Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. ✦ ²⁰For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. ✦ ²¹It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. ✦ ²²Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. ✦ ²³And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Rom 14 ·28 1 Cor 8 ·13 Acts 10 ·9 Phil 2 ·8 1 Cor 10 ·8 Rom 15 ·7 Matt 18 ·7 2 Cor 5 ·6

Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

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