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| 14:1 |
Now accept the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for [the purpose of] passing judgment on his opinions.
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| 14:2 |
One man has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables [only].
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| 14:3 |
Let not him who eats regard with contempt him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
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| 14:4 |
Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and stand he will, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
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| 14:5 |
One man regards one day above another, another regards every day [alike]. Let each man be fully convinced in his own mind.
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| 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.
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| 14:7 |
For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;
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| 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.
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| 14:9 |
For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
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| 14:10 |
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.
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| 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."
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| 14:12 |
So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 14:16 |
Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
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| 14:17 |
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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| 14:18 |
For he who in this [way] serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
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| 14:19 |
So then let us pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
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| 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.
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| 14:21 |
It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles.
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| 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.
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| 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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