Romans:14

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* Now accept one who is weak in faith , but not for disputes over opinions . * One man has faith to eat all things , but he who is weak eats only vegetables . * Don 't let him who eats despise him who doesn 't eat . Don 't let him who doesn 't eat judge him who eats , for God has accepted him . * Who are you who judge another 's servant ? To his own lord he stands or falls . Yes , he will be made to stand , for God has power to make him stand . * One man esteems one day as more important . Another esteems every day alike . Let each man be fully assured in his own mind . * He who observes the day , observes it to the Lord ; and he who does not observe the day , to the Lord he does not observe it . He who eats , eats to the Lord , for he gives God thanks . He who doesn 't eat , to the Lord he doesn 't eat , and gives God thanks . * For none of us lives to himself , and none dies to himself . * For if we live , we live to the Lord . Or if we die , we die to the Lord . If therefore we live or die , we are the Lord 's . * For to this end Christ died , rose , and lived again , that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living . * But you , why do you judge your brother ? Or you again , why do you despise your brother ? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ . * For it is written , "'As I live ,' says the Lord , 'to me every knee will bow . Every tongue will confess to God .'" {Isaiah strkjv @45:23 } * So then each one of us will give account of himself to God . * Therefore let 's not judge one another any more , but judge this rather , that no man put a stumbling block in his brother 's way , or an occasion for falling . * I know , and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus , that nothing is unclean of itself ; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean , to him it is unclean . * Yet if because of food your brother is grieved , you walk no longer in love . Don 't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died . * Then don 't let your good be slandered , * for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking , but righteousness , peace , and joy in the Holy Spirit . * For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men . * So then , let us follow after things which make for peace , and things by which we may build one another up . * Don 't overthrow God 's work for food 's sake . All things indeed are clean , however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating . * It is good to not eat meat , drink wine , nor do anything by which your brother stumbles , is offended , or is made weak . * Do you have faith ? Have it to yourself before God . Happy is he who doesn 't judge himself in that which he approves . * But he who doubts is condemned if he eats , because it isn 't of faith ; and whatever is not of faith is sin . * Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ , according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages , * but now is revealed , and by the Scriptures of the prophets , according to the commandment of the eternal God , is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations ; * to the only wise God , through Jesus Christ , to whom be the glory forever ! Amen . {TR places verses 24-26 after Romans strkjv @16:24 as verses 25-27 .}

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