Romans 14:1-23(NKJV)
Receive one who is
weak in the faith, but not to
disputes over doubtful things.
For one believes he
may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only
vegetables.
Let not him who eats
despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who
eats; for God has received him.
Who are you to judge
another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be
made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
One person
esteems one day above another;
another esteems every day alike.
Let each be fully convinced 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; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and
gives God thanks.
For none of us lives
to himself, and no one dies to himself.
For if we live, we
live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live
or die, we are the Lord’s.
For to this end
Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the
dead and the living.
But why do you judge
your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all
stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
For it is written:
“As I live, says
the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall
confess to God.”
So then each of us
shall give account of himself to God.
Therefore let us not
judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling
block or a cause to fall in our
brother’s way.
I know and am
convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is
nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to
him it is unclean.
Yet if your brother
is grieved because of your food,
you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for
whom Christ died.
Therefore do not let
your good be spoken of as evil;
for the kingdom of
God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit.
For he who serves
Christ in these things is
acceptable to God and approved by men.
Therefore let us
pursue the things which make for
peace and the things by which one may edify another.
Do not destroy the
work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine
nor do anything by which your
brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
Do you have faith?
Have it to yourself before God.
Happy is he who does not condemn
himself in what he approves.
But he who doubts is
condemned if he eats, because he does
not eat from faith; for
whatever is not from faith
is sin.
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