Romans 14
23 verses
The strong and weak in faith must receive one another without passing judgment on disputable matters: the weak eat only vegetables while the strong eat everything; one regards certain days as holy while another regards every day alike—each must be fully persuaded in their own mind, not to please themselves but to live for the Lord. The strong must not despise the weak, nor the weak judge the strong, for each will give an account of themselves to God, not to others; Christ is Lord of the living and the dead, and all will stand before the judgment seat of God. The law of love supersedes the law of food: if your food causes your brother to stumble, do not eat it, for it is better not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, and whatever does not come from conviction (faith) is sin. The kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; the one who serves Christ in these matters is acceptable to God and approved by human beings. Paul thus transforms the weak-strong dispute from an issue of knowledge and principle into an issue of love and conscience, making communal peace and the edification of one another the criterion of acceptable conduct, grounded not in dietary law but in the conscience informed by faith in Christ.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
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For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
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Let 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.
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Who 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.
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One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
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He 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.
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For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
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For 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.
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Following God is costly, but the reward is eternal.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. This connects directly to t...
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For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
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But 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.
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For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
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So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
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Let 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.
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I 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.
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But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
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Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
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Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
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For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
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Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. I notice the repetition here is deliberate — the author wants us to feel the emp...
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And 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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