Romans 14

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¹Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to have quarrels over opinions. ✦ ²One person has faith that he may eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables. ✦ ³The 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. ✦ ⁴Who 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. ✦ ⁵One person values one day over another, another values every day the same. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. ✦ ⁶The one who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and the one who eats, does so with regard to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God. ✦ ⁷For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; ✦ ⁸for 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. ✦ ⁹For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ✦ ¹⁰But as for you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you as well, why do you regard your brother or sister with contempt? For we will all appear before the judgment seat of God. ✦ ¹¹For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, to Me every knee will bow, And every tongue will give praise to God.” ✦ ¹²So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God. ✦ ¹³Therefore let’s not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this: not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s or sister’s way. ✦ ¹⁴I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to the one who thinks something is unclean, to that person it is unclean. ✦ ¹⁵For if because of food your brother or sister is hurt, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Do not destroy with your choice of food that person for whom Christ died. ✦ ¹⁶Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil; ✦ ¹⁷for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ✦ ¹⁸For the one who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by other people. ✦ ¹⁹So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another. ✦ ²⁰Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the person who eats and causes offense. ✦ ²¹It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother or sister stumbles. ✦ ²²The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves. ✦ ²³But the one 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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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

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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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